Cadman Family History
Cadman Name Meaning
English:: from Middle English cade ‘barrel used for herring or other fish’ + man perhaps a metonymic occupational name denoting a maker of casks. occupational name meaning ‘servant of a man named Cade’ (see Cade ). possibly from an unrecorded Middle English form of Old English Cædmon apparently of Brittonic origin (from Catumānos) although there is no evidence for the name after the Norman Conquest.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022