Given name & surname · also Middle English
Laid
“river crossing”
Laid is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As an English surname, Laid goes back to Middle English lade, meaning “river crossing.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Laid has more than one origin: as an English surname, it comes from Middle English lade; as an Estonian surname, it goes back to a word meaning “holm, islet”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Middle English lade (“river crossing”), from Old English gelād.
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