Redding Family History
Redding Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Reading the county seat of Berkshire from Old English Rēadingas ‘people of Rēad(a)’ a byname meaning ‘red’. Irish: from Ó Rodáin ‘descendant of Rodán’ a personal name derived from a diminutive of rod ‘strong lively spirited’. Anglicized forms with other vowels as in Rudden Reddan may be derived from a variant Ó Roidín. Current Anglicized Irish forms usually have a double d. German: patronymic from any of the ancient Germanic personal names with the first element rād ‘counsel advice’. German: habitational name from a place called Reddingen in Lower Saxony. Americanized form of Luxembourgish and German Reding 2 a cognate of 1 above and probably also of French Réding (see Reding ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022