Duddle Family History

from Dudhill in Alveley (Shrops) or from a minor locality elsewhere (in Lancs for example) similarly named in Middle English as Dod(de)hull or Dod(de)hill ‘round-topped hill’. from an unrecorded Middle English personal name *Duddel (Old English Dyddel or Duddel a diminutive of Dudd(a)).

from a diminutive of the word dod dud discussed at Dodd. Perhaps it is an early example of the 17th‐century slang term doddle doodle ‘foolish fellow’.