Family name origins & meanings
- English : topographic name from Old English hlið, hlid, Old Norse hlíð ‘slope’.
- English : habitational name from places so named in Shropshire, Herefordshire, or Somerset, or on the island of Orkney. The Herefordshire and Somerset places are named with the Old English river name Hl̄de (see Loud).
- English : from a medieval byname derived from Old English līðe ‘mild’, ‘gentle’.