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odell Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from a place in Bedfordshire, also called Woodhill, from Old English wad ‘woad’ (a plant collected for the blue dye that could be obtained from it) + hyll ‘hill’. Compare Waddell.
  2. (O’Dell) of the same origin as 1, but altered by folk etymology as if of Irish origin.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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odell Family Facts

Distribution of odell Families in the US in 1920
Number of odell families
 372-741
 125-371
 1-124
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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