The shad Surname
shad Name Meaning and History
- Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic shad ‘happy’.
- English: metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller, from Old English sceadd ‘shad’, a kind of fish. Reaney and Wilson note that during the Old English period there was a ‘shad season’, so it must have been of some economic importance.
- Americanized spelling of German Schade.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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