The haddock Surname
haddock Name Meaning and History
- from a medieval survival with added initial H- of the Old English personal name Ædduc, a diminutive of Æddi, itself a short form of various compound names with the first element ead ‘prosperity’, ‘fortune’.
- habitational name from Haydock near Liverpool, which is probably named from Welsh heiddog ‘characterized by barley’.
- from Middle English hadduc ‘haddock’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller, or a nickname for someone supposedly resembling the fish.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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