English and Scottish: habitational name from a place in
Lincolnshire, so called from the Old English tribal name
Spaldingas ‘people of the district called Spald’. The
district name probably means ‘ditches’, referring to drainage channels
in the fenland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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