When Lyle Eugene Hood was born in 1921, his father, Jesse Arthur Hood, was 39 and his mother, Daisy Myrtledine Cargill, was 38. He died in 1923, in Norton, Norton, Kansas, United States, at the age of 2, and was buried in Norton Cemetery, Norton, Norton, Kansas, United States.
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English hod, hood, hodde ‘hood’, either for someone who wore a hood (like the medieval folk hero Robin Hood) or who made and sold hoods. In Kent and Sussex the name may sometimes have been confused with Hoad .
English: from the Middle English personal name Hod(e), a variant of Ode or Odd with prosthetic H-; see Ott and Oates and compare Hodson 2.
English and Scottish: variant of Hudd, from the Middle English personal name Hudde, Hutte, which could represent Old English Hud(d)a or its ancient Germanic equivalent Hud(d)o, but is more likely from Anglo-Norman French Hud(de), a pet form of Hugh.
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