Släkthistoria för Hoddell
Hoddell Vad efternamn betyder
probably from the diminutive of a Middle English personal name Hodd; see Hood and compare Huddle.possibly from a late Middle English adjective *hodel ‘secretive’ if that can safely be inferred from the noun hodelnesse ‘secrecy’. perhaps from Odell (Beds) with prosthetic H-. The place-name is recorded as Wadehelle in 1086 and derives from Old English wād ‘woad’ + hyll ‘hill’.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
