Dood Family History

Dutch: habitational name from a farm called Dood located in Bornerbroek in Overijssel province; the farm name may derive from the old personal name Dode based on ancient Germanic theud ‘people’. Alternatively, it may refer to the common meaning of the noun dood ‘death’.

This suggests a metonymic occupational name for a gravedigger, or it could indicate a topographic or habitational name referencing a house called De Dood (‘The Death’).

For instance, one might compare the name Egbert Willemsz in de snelle Doot (‘in the Fast Death’) from Amsterdam in 1585.