Polish (also Lada) and Czech (Moravian): from a pet
form of the personal name Lada, a short form of Polish
Wladyslaw, Ladyslaw, or Czech
(V)ladislav (see Laszlo).Czech:
topographic name from lada ‘heath’.Hungarian (Láda): metonymic occupational name for a
joiner, from Hungarian láda ‘box’, from Middle High German
lade ‘box’, ‘coffin’.Hungarian: from Lad(a) a
short form of the personal name Ladomér, a Hungarian form of
Slavic Vladimir.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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