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MCCADDEN Family History

Recorded in various forms including MacCadam, MacCadden, MacCudden, and in the short forms commencing "Mc", this rare surname is regarded as being Irish, although possibly the origination is Anglo-Norman. Derived from the medieval Gaelic Mac Cadain, it is thought that the origination may lie in the biblical name Adam, carried by some of the invaders of Ireland in 1170. If this is the case then at a later date the "invaders" joined the native islanders, and gaelicized their name, before in about the 16th century adopting the "modern" spellings.