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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Middle English : A ford
  • English : Home-body

Boy name variations

Wade

Wade

- 7% this year
Neutral
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Wadley

Wadley

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
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Waide

Waide

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
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Wayde

Wayde

+ 7% this year
Masculine
Rare
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Waddsworth

Waddsworth

0 % this year
Masculine
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Wadswurth

Wadswurth

0 % this year
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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Wadsworth near Halifax, West Yorkshire, named with the Old English personal name Wæddi + worð ‘enclosure’.
  • William Wadsworth came from England to Cambridge, MA, in 1632, and in 1636 accompanied Thomas Hooker as one of the founders of Hartford, CT.

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