Last name origins & meanings:
- Irish: reduced form of McDade, ‘son of David’.
- German: from the Frisian personal name Dode, which Bahlow
explains as a form derived from baby talk.
- English (Norfolk): from
Old English dǣd ‘deed’, ‘exploit’, probably applied as a
nickname commemorating some exploit perpetrated by the bearer or for
someone noted for his derring-do. Compare Deeds.
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