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First name origin & meaning:

English: Southerner

First name variations: Wade, Wadell

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Scottish: variant of Weddle.
  2. English: topographic name for someone who lived at the hill where woad grew, from Old English wād ‘woad’ + hyll ‘hill’, or a habitational name from a place so named, as for example Woodhill, Wiltshire.