Boy name origins & meanings
- Welsh : From Baddon
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- English : probably from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Bad(d)a, which is of uncertain origin, perhaps a short form of the various compound names with the first element beadu ‘battle’.
- North German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name composed with badu ‘strife’, ‘battle’.
- North German : occupational name from Middle Low German bade ‘messenger’.
