Family name origins & meanings
- English : either an occupational name for a carter, from an agent derivative of Middle English lode ‘to load’, or a topographic name from a derivative of Middle English lode ‘path’, ‘road’, ‘watercourse’.
- German : occupational name for a weaver of woolen cloth (loden), Middle High German lodære.
- North German : nickname for a good-for-nothing, from Middle Low German lod(d)er.