Origin of Hudom surname?

Question

I have tried looking on the internet for the origin of the surname "Hudom" and have had little to no luck. I have not come across any geneology sites, or anything similar, with this last name in their records.

And no, this is not a mispelling of the name. Thank you so much for your help!

Answer 1

Hudsom was mostlikely mispelled many moons ago when your ancestors came to to your country now.  It mostlikely happened when the Census takers came by their home to get their names and who was living in the home and all the other questions that were asked for that census.  

Your ancestor that gave the information mostlikely could not read nor write.  The census taker would sound out the name and write down how it sounded to them.  

Here in the USA we have so many accents ie Southern draw, Boston etc.

The census taker might have heard Hudsom but it should have sounded more like Hudson.

With that in mind here is what I have found:

Surname: Hudson

This interesting Anglo-Scottish surname is a patronymic. It derives from the personal name "Hudde", which itself has three possible origins. Firstly it may be a nickname form of the pre 7th century Old Saxon "Hugh", a name meaning "mind or heart". This name was very popular with the Normans, who used it widely in England after the Conquest of 1066. Secondly Hudde can be a nickname form of the Germanic and French "Ricard or Richard", and thirdly it can be from the Olde English personal name, "Huda", which gave its name to places such as Huddington in Worcestershire. In England Hudson is especially popular in Yorkshire. This county is also the home of the variant form Hutson - a dialectal transposition, of which the first recording may be that of August 16th 1618, when Mogerit Hutson was christened at Nunkeeling, Yorkshire. In Scotland the earliest record of Hudson is probably that of James Hudson, a charter witness recorded in the register of Kelso Abbey in 1466. Variants of the Scottish name include "Hudsone" in 1567, whilst "Hutson" is recorded there in 1637. Diminutives of Hudson include Huddy and Huddle, found in Devonshire and Cornwall. Amongst the many famous nameholders was Henry Hudson, 1580 - 1611, who is credited with discovering the 'North West Passage' and Hudson's Bay in Canada. Michael Hudson, who died fighting in the Second Civil war 1646 - 1648, was chaplain to King Charles 1st, and Scout Master to the Northern Army. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William Hudde, which was dated 1273, in the "Hundred Rolls of Cambridgeshire", during the reign of King Edward 1, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307.

Answer 2

Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop"  leading to  variants of the original spelling. Hudom may be spelled that way now, but it might easily have derived from Hudson, Hudon, or something quite different, especially when it first entered a different country to that which it's owner originated, the only sure way of finding the correct spelling ond origin, is to research the lineage of the person holding that name today.

Hudon: origins & meanings:

French: from a pet form of Houde.

A Hudon, also called <xref>Beaulieu</xref>, from the Anjou region of France, is documented in Quebec City in 1666.

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Beaulieu  

Last name origins & meanings:

French: habitational name from any of the extremely numerous places in France named with Old French beu, bel ‘fair’, ‘lovely’ + lieu ‘place’, ‘location’. The name is occasionally also found in England; it is then either a Norman name from one of the French places just mentioned or derives from an English place name of the same origin, Beaulieu (pronounced byoo-lee) in Hampshire, seat of the Montagu family.

In Canada Beaulieu has been used as a secondary name to Diers, Dufresne, Hudon, Lebel, Martin, Montpelier, Palmier, Philippe, and Thomas. It is documented independently in Montreal in 1726 as the name of an immigrant from Gascony, France.