Lydiard

• (surname): Liddiard

Habitational surname from the villages of Lydiard Millicent and Lydiard Tregoze, both in the borough of Swindon. The placename was recorded as Lidgerd or Lidegærd in the Cartularium Saxonicum; the second part of this word coul derive from Welsh garth (“cliff; enclosure”).

Lydiard (plural Lydiards)

1. A habitational surname from Welsh.

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Lydiard is the 42299^th most common surname in England, belonging to 72 individuals.

• Survey of English Place-Names

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Lydiard”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 478.
• Forebears