Meaning and Origin of: Chadwick

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Warlike

Boy name variations

Chad
Chaddie
Chadric
Chadrick
Chadwyck

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places called Chadwick, in Merseyside (formerly in Lancashire), Warwickshire, and two in Worcestershire. One of the places in Worcestershire and the one in Warwickshire are named as ‘the dairy farm (Old English wīc) of Ceadel’. The other in Worcestershire and the one in Merseyside are named as ‘Ceadda’s dairy farm’. Ceadda was the name of a famous Anglo-Saxon bishop, St. Chad.