Given name & surname · also Middle English
Liddle
“loud, River Lid”
Liddle is a surname from Middle English, ultimately from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Liddle goes back to Old English hlÿde, meaning “loud, River Lid.”
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Where it comes from
Liddle comes from Middle English, and ultimately from Old English.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Middle English Lidelesdale, from Old English hlÿde (“loud, River Lid”).
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Liddle’s family of names
In English usage, Liddle as a surname has a related form in LIDDEL.
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Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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