Paden Family Crest and Last Name Background

Anyone researching Paden should also look under Padden. Name scholars give the meaning as “The son of Padin, a pet form of Patrick (noble or patrician)”.

• Without the “d” of Padden, Paden is a simpler written form of the same name.
• The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Paden with 4,223 bearers, at rank 7,842. It sits among the 10,000 most common last names in the country.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Paden coat of arms

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