Family name origins & meanings
- Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads, so named from Old Norse hlað ‘pile or stack’ (for example, of wood or stones) or ‘pavement’.
- North German : short form of Ladwig, a variant of Ludwig.
- English : topographic name for someone living by a road, path, or watercourse, Middle English lade, lode (Old English (ge)lād).