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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern English : habitational name from any of various places called Waddington. One near Clitheroe in Lancashire and another in Lincolnshire (Wadintune in Domesday Book) were originally named in Old English as the ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Wada’.

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