Family name origins & meanings
- Americanized form of French (Huguenot) Dragaud, from the Germanic personal name Dragwald (see Dragon).
- The Dragaud ancestors were Huguenots who came to England in the 1680s. On November 12, 1699 Pierre Dragaud married Elizabeth Tavaud in Bristol and shortly afterwards they came to America. They are probably the ancestors of all American bearers of this surname.