Gladding Family History
Gladding Name Meaning
English:: variant of Gladden . occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English personal name Glading or Gleding (Old English Glæding) which may have been a pet form of Old English Glæd (see Glade ) or of Old English names beginning with Glæd- such as Gladwin and Gladman or it may have been a transferred use of an unrecorded Middle English nickname glading ‘the cheerful one’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022