Meaning and background
The story behind Wade
Wade entered given-name use through English surnames, according to Behind the Name. The linked surname entries preserve two routes: a place-name connected with an Old English word for a ford, and the older personal name Wada, related to a verb meaning to go. Both involve movement or crossings, but they are historically different explanations. Keeping both avoids reducing every Wade to a single landscape translation.
- Origin
- English given name from surnames: one involving an Old English word for ford, another from Wada and a verb meaning to go. Source · Source 2 · Source 3
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