Tidy as a surname derives from the Middle English word tidef, which designated a type of small bird.Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames, Reaney & Wilson, Oxford University Press 2005
People with the name include: Bill Tidy (1933–2023), English cartoonist Charles Meymott Tidy (1843–1892), English medical man and sanitary chemist Frank Tidy (1932–2017), British cinematographer George Tidy (1930–2023), Scottish footballer Henry Letheby Tidy (1877–1960), English physician Thomas Holmes Tidy (–1874), British army officer Thomas Tidy (1846–1892), English cricketer Warwick Tidy (born 1953), English cricketer
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