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First name origins & meanings:

1. American: Campy
2. Middle English: A ford
3. English: Southerner

First name variations: Wadley, Wadsworth, Waide, Wayde, Waddell, Wadell

Last name origins & meanings:

1. English: from the Middle English personal name Wade, Old English Wada, from wadan ‘to go’. (Wada was the name of a legendary sea-giant.)
2. English: topographic name for someone who lived near a ford, Old English (ge)wæd (of cognate origin to 1), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example Wade in Suffolk.
3. Dutch and North German: occupational name or nickname from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German wade ‘garment’, ‘large net’.
4. Jonathan Wade emigrated from Norfolk, England, to Medford, MA, in 1632. Benjamin Franklin Wade (1800–1878), born near Springfield, MA, was a prominent U.S. senator from OH during the Civil War.

This name appears in the following lists: Country Stars, Lakes and Rivers