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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a diminutive of Gadaud, a personal name of Germanic origin, composed of the elements wadi ‘pledge’, ‘security’ + waldan ‘to govern’. This was borne by a 9th-century bishop of Marseilles.

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