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    The surname Caldecott

    An English place surname.

    3 syllables Soundex C432

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English cald (“cold”) + cot (“cottage”), denoting a place provided with a shelter for the wintertime. Compare Caldecote and Calcott, which share the same etymology.

    Caldecott is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    Famous Caldecotts

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Randolph Caldecott
      British artist and illustrator (1846-1886)
    • Andrew Caldecott
      British colonial administrator and writer (1884–1951)

    Notable Caldecotts come mostly from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1) and the United Kingdom (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Callcott

    Caldecott has the Soundex code C432, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C432.

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Caldecott come from?
    From Old English cald (“cold”) + cot (“cottage”), denoting a place provided with a shelter for the wintertime. Compare Caldecote and Calcott, which share the same etymology.
    Who is the most famous person named Caldecott?
    Randolph Caldecott, British artist and illustrator (1846-1886), followed by Andrew Caldecott.
    Where is the surname Caldecott most common?
    Wikidata records people named Caldecott in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Kingdom.
    What type of surname is Caldecott?
    Caldecott is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    What are other spellings of Caldecott?
    Callcott.