First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
First name origin & meaning:
Old English: Son of Hud
First name variations: Hud, Hudsan, Hudsin, Hudsyn
Last name origin & meaning:
English: patronymic from the medieval personal name Hudde (see Hutt 1). This surname is particularly common in Yorkshire and is also well established in Ireland.
Famous people with this last name: Kate Hudson
Famous people who gave their babies this name: Marcia Gay Harden, Harvey Keitel, Gena Lee Nolin
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