Last name: PADDEN
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PADDEN : This last name is indexed 6,201 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
PADDEN : 1: Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Páidín ‘son of Páidín’ a pet form of the personal name Pádraig (see Patrick). Compare McPadden.2: English (Devon): habitational name from either Petton in Bampton (Devon) or Paddon in Shebbear (Devon). Petton in Bampton derives from an Old English personal name P(e)atta + Old English tūn ‘farmstead settlement’; Paddon in Shebbear probably has the same etymology but due to a lack of early forms this cannot be certain.
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