About the Waddingham Surname

Your Waddingham ancestor may well appear as Waddington in earlier records.

What is the meaning of Waddingham?

In origin, the name means “farm of Wada's people”. Waddingham ranked 78,821 in the 2010 US Census, with 242 people answering to the name. That puts it inside the top 100,000 US surnames.

How is Waddingham related to Waddington?

Before spelling was fixed, Waddington was also written Waddingham. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Related forms: Wadington.

Does every Waddingham family have a crest?

Arms linked to Waddington and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

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