Padget Family Crest & Name History

Padget is a branch of the Padgett name tree. The name is usually explained as “Little page, young servant”. Without the “t” of Padgett, Padget is a simpler written form of the same name. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

In the 2010 US Census, 845 Americans gave Padget as their last name (rank 28,293). It sits within the 50,000 most common last names in the country. Padget sounds close to Paget and Pagett, so it can help to search both.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Padget, so the heraldry linked to Padgett is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Padget report, with a museum-style coat of arms.