Lydiard

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Liddiard

Etymology

Habitational surname from the villages of Lydiard Millicent and Lydiard Tregoze, both in the borough of Swindon. The placename was recorded as Lidgerd or Lidegærd in the Cartularium Saxonicum; the second part of this word coul derive from Welsh garth (“cliff; enclosure”).

Proper noun

Lydiard (plural Lydiards)

1. A habitational surname from Welsh.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Lydiard is the 42299^th most common surname in England, belonging to 72 individuals.

References

• Survey of English Place-Names

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Lydiard”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 478.
• Forebears