Scudders Falls is an area of whitewater rapids on the Delaware River between Ewing, New Jersey and Lower Makefield, Pennsylvania in the United States.

[2] Scudders Falls derives its name from Richard Betts Scudder, who according to the Long Island Genealogy Surname Database, died in 1754 at "Scudder's Falls, Hunterdon County."

One of Richard Scudder's ancestors from Kent, England was named Henry Skudder.

The k in the surname apparently became a c at some point in time, helping to give the falls its name.

[3] The apostrophe was dropped by the United States Board on Geographic Names, which has deleted apostrophes from official geographic place names in all but five instances, hence the current name "Scudders Falls.