American Family Name Origins:
Laidler
Frequency: (174)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Scottish: variant of Laidlaw.
2. Northern English and Scottish: perhaps also an occupational name for a maker of ladles, from an agent derivative of Middle English ladel(e) ‘ladle’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
