Släkthistoria för Lead
Lead Vad efternamn betyder
apparently from Lead (WR Yorks) named from Old English *lǣd ‘artificial watercourse drain’ but although the place is recorded in Domesday Book there is no village there. Alternatively it may be a reduced form of Leeds (from the WR Yorks place-name). for someone who lived by a cliff or hill slope from Middle English lede a variant of lith lid (Old English hlið hlid) or perhaps from a variant pronunciation of Lydd (Kent) which is an Old English dative plural Hlidum ‘(at the) hill slopes’. See Lyth and Lyde (2).perhaps from a reduced form of Leeds (from the place-name in Kent). from the Middle English personal name Lede perhaps a survival of Old Scandinavian Ljótr or *Ljóti (from a nickname meaning ‘ugly’) attested in 958 and 959 as Leot and Leod dux. The E Anglian name may alternatively belong with (1).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016