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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Middle English: A ford
  2. English: Home-body

First name variations: Wadley, Waide, Wayde, Wade, Waddsworth, Wadswurth

Last name origins & meanings:

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