Waddell

English

Etymology

Various origins:

• A variant of the Scottish surname Weddle.
• An English topographic surname for someone who lived at the hill where woad grew, from Old English wād (“woad”) + hyll (“hill”).

Proper noun

Waddell (countable and uncountable, plural Waddells)

1. A surname from Old English.
2. An unincorporated community in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Waddell is the 1691^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 21301 individuals. Waddell is most common among White (80.85%) and Black/African American (14.51%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Waddell”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.