Släkthistoria för Diddams
Diddams Vad efternamn betyder
variant of Didham with post-medieval excrescent -s. Compare Thomas Didham 1773 Nicholas Diddams 1786 in IGI (Stoke Damerel Devon); Lucy Diddam 1792 Elizabeth Diddams 1780 in IGI (Wherwell Hants). By folk etymology Diddams may have been altered somewhat earlier to Diddymouse and also to Didymus through false association with Didymus the latinized form of Greek didymos ‘twin’ an epithet of the apostle Thomas in the gospel of John (116).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
