Dodd

• Dod

Uncertain, but possibly from any of the following:

1. Old English personal names Dodd(a), Dudd(a)
2. The Proto-Germanic root *dudd-/*dodd- (“rounded”), denoting a rounded, lumpish man, or a stupid person.
3. The same root as Old English dydrian (“to deceive”), denoting a deceiver.
4. The verb dod (“to make bare, to lop off”), to denote a fairly hairless person.

Dodd (countable and uncountable, plural Dodds)

1. An English surname from Middle English derived from a Middle English given name of obscure origin.
   • 2025 August 10, Don Riddell, “Now that my kids are off to college, what’s this empty nester dad to do?”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     As Dodd wrote in ‘The Empty Nest,’ “To me, it was glaringly obvious that parting from a child who has been the centre of your life for twenty-odd years is a really big deal. Yet while new parents are bombarded with advice, empty nest parents are left to muddle through what is arguably the most challenging phase of parenting.”

2. An unincorporated community in Tobin Township, Perry County, Indiana, United States.

• Dodds
• Dods

• IPA^(key): /dodd/, [dod]

Dodd m

1. a male given name