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Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Surname This article is about the surname Wade. For other uses, see Wade.
A ford in a 19th-century oil painting

Wade is a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin. It is thought to derive from the Middle English given name "Wade", which itself derived from the Old English verb "wadan" (wada) meaning "to go", or as a habitational name from the Old English word "(ge)waed" meaning "ford".[1][2][3]

Variants of this surname include Waide and Wadey, the latter a diminutive variant.[2] There is also a documented relationship between Wade and Waythe, the latter derived by a variant form of "wade" meaning a ford, that being "wath"; there is likewise a relationship between Wade/Waythe and Ford/Forth.[4]

Notable people and fictional characters with the surname

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A to E

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  • Abdoulaye Wade (born 1926), President of Senegal
  • Adam Wade (drummer) (born 1968), American drummer
  • Adam Wade (singer) (1935–2022), American singer, drummer and television actor
  • Adam Wade (storyteller) American storyteller and actor
  • April Wade, American actress and producer
  • Arthur C. Wade (1852–1914), American lawyer and politician
  • Arthur Edward Wade (1895–1989), British botanist, lichenologist and museum curator
  • Barrington Wade (born 1998), American football player
  • Ben Wade (1922–2002), American baseball player
  • Ben Wade, character in the film 3:10 to Yuma
  • Ben Wade, character in the film Key Largo
  • Ben Wade (politician) (1883–1958), Australian politician
  • Bernie L. Wade (born 1963), American minister, President of the International Circle of Faith
  • Bill Wade (footballer) (1901–1958), English footballer
  • Bill Wade (1930–2016), American football quarterback
  • Betsy Wade (1929–2020), American journalist
  • Brandon Wade (born 1970), American businessman
  • Bryan Wade (born 1963), English footballer
  • Chris Wade (fighter) (born 1987), American mixed martial artist
  • Chris Wade (real estate broker) (born 1945), American real estate broker involved in the Whitewater controversy
  • Chris Wade (writer), 20th–21st century English writer, musician and filmmaker
  • Chris Wade, producer of Chapo Trap House
  • Christian Wade (born 1991), English rugby player & American football player
  • Claude Martin Wade (1794–1861), British political officer in India and Afghanistan
  • Cory Wade (born 1983), American Major League Baseball player
  • David Wade (Louisiana general) (1911–1990), U.S. Army general, namesake of David Wade Correctional Center
  • David Wade (politician) (born 1950), former South Australian politician
  • Dallas Toler-Wade (born 1974), American musician
  • Dayton Wade (born 2000), American football player
  • Dean Wade (born 1996), American basketball player
  • Don Wade (1928–2007), American football coach and college athletics administrator
  • Donald Wade, Baron Wade (1904–1988), British Liberal Party politician
  • Doug Wade (born 1941), Australian rules footballer
  • Dwyane Wade (born 1982), American basketball player
  • Ed Wade (born 1956), baseball executive
  • Eddie Wade (1948–2025), Irish politician
  • Edward Wade (1802–1866), American politician

F to J

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  • Gale Wade (1929–2022), American baseball player
  • George Wade (1673–1748), British military commander
  • George Wade (musician) (c.1895 – 1975), Canadian folk musician and band leader
  • George Wade (pottery manufacturer) (1891–1986), chairman of Wade Ceramics Ltd in Britain
  • Henry Wade (1914–2001), Texas lawyer and lead defendant in Roe v. Wade
  • Henry Wade, pen name of British mystery writer Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet (1887–1969)
  • Henry Wade (surgeon) (1876–1955), Scottish surgeon
  • Herbert Wade (doctor) (1886–1968), American doctor and researcher on leprosy
  • Herby Wade (1905–1980), South African cricketer
  • Hunter Wade (1916–2011), New Zealand diplomat
  • Jack Wade (footballer) (1907–1941), Australian rules footballer
  • Jack Wade (James Bond), a character in two James Bond films
  • Jack Wade, Alaska, an unincorporated community
  • James Wade (born 1983), English darts player
  • James Wade (basketball) (born 1975), American-French basketball coach
  • Jason Wade (born 1980), singer/songwriter
  • Jennie Wade (1843–1863), the only civilian casualty in the Battle of Gettysburg
  • Jeremy Wade (born 1956), British TV presenter (River Monsters) and fishing author
  • Jessey Wade (c. 1861 – 1952), English suffragette and animal welfare campaigner
  • Jim Wade (1925–2019), American football player
  • Joe Wade (filmmaker), British filmmaker, TV writer and producer
  • Joe Wade (footballer) (1921–2005), British footballer and manager
  • Joe Wade (trade unionist) (1919–2004), British trade union leader
  • John Wade (disambiguation), several people
  • Joivan Wade (born 1993), British actor
  • Julian Wade (born 1990), Dominican footballer
  • Julie Marie Wade (born 1979), American writer and professor or writing

K to O

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  • LaMonte Wade Jr. (born 1994), American baseball player
  • Lillian Wade (1870–1923), British sculptor
  • Lloyd Wade, English gospel and soul singer, vocal coach
  • Logan Wade (born 1991), Australian baseball player
  • Madeline Wade, American physicist
  • Mark Wade (born 1965), American retired basketball player
  • Mark Wade, American space enthusiast and author who maintained Encyclopedia Astronautica
  • Mark Wade (ventriloquist), American ventriloquist
  • Martin Joseph Wade (1861–1931), U.S. Democratic Representative from Iowa
  • Mary Wade (1775–1859), British convict transported to Australia aboard the Lady Juliana in 1790
  • Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade (1860–1936), American writer
  • Mary Wade (paleontologist) (1928–2005), Australian paleontologist
  • Matthew Wade (born 1987), Australian cricketer
  • Melancthon S. Wade (died 1868), Union Army general
  • Morgan Wade (singer) (born 1995), American singer
  • Ned Wade (hurler) (1911–1992), Irish hurler
  • Nicholas Wade (born 1942 in England), US science writer and author
  • Nicholas J. Wade, British vision researcher and historian of vision
  • Oulton Wade, Baron Wade of Chorlton (1932–2018), British politician and businessman

P to T

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  • Paul Wade (born 1962), Australian footballer
  • Peter Wade, British anthropologist
  • Rachel Wade (born 1990), American murderer
  • Rebekah Wade, English journalist
  • Reg Wade, English footballer
  • Robert Wade (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Rosalind Wade (1909–1989), British novelist
  • Scott Wade (born 1960), Australian rules footballer
  • Shaun Wade (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Sidney Wade (born 1951), American poet
  • Silas A. Wade (1797–1869), American politician
  • Stephen Wade (politician) (born 1960), Australian politician
  • Ted Wade (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Terence Wade (1930–2005), English academic and linguist
  • Thomas Wade (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Tobías Wade (born 1999), Argentine rugby union player
  • Tomás Wade (died 1982), Argentine field hockey player
  • Tyler Wade (born 1994), American baseball player

U to Z

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  • Virginia Wade (born 1945), tennis player from the United Kingdom
  • Wallace Wade (1892–1986), American college sports coach
  • Wayne Wade (born 1959), Jamaican reggae musician
  • William Wade (Maldon MP), in 1410, MP for Maldon
  • William Wade (English politician) (1546–1623), English statesman and diplomat
  • Sir William Wade (lord mayor) (1849–1935), British politician, Lord Mayor of Bradford
  • William Wade, Baron Wade of Chorlton (1932–2018), British politician, businessman and agriculturalist
  • William Wade (Canon of Windsor) (1672–1733), Irish Anglican priest
  • William Wade (Dean of Glasgow and Galloway) (died 1845), Scottish Episcopalian priest
  • Sir William Wade (legal scholar) (1918–2004), British academic lawyer
  • William Wade (journalist) (1918–2006), American war correspondent during World War II
  • Willoughby Francis Wade (1827–1906), British physician

Notes

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  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick & Hodges, Flavia. A Dictionary of Surnames (Oxford University Press, 1988); s.v. Wade OCLC 18191308
  2. ^ a b Harrison, Henry (2013). Surnames of the United Kingdom: A Concise Etymological Dictionary. Assisted by Gyda Pulling (Reprint ed.). Genealogical Publishing Company. pp. 256–7. ISBN 9780806301716.
  3. ^ Lower, Mark Antony (1860). Patronymica Britannica: A Dictionary of the Family names of the United Kingdom. Great Britain: J. R. Smith. p. 368. OCLC 4118298 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ Bardsley, Charles Wareing (1901). A dictionary of English and Welsh surnames. Revised posthumously for the press by his Widow. Henry Frowde. p. 786. OCLC 867884157 – via Internet Archive.

Further reading

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  • Wade, Stuart Charles (1900). The Wade Genealogy. New York: Stuart C. Wade – via Internet Archive.

See also

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  • Justice Wade (disambiguation)
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