Norwegian: habitational name from a farm name found in several
places in Norway, derived from Old Norse au{dh}n ‘wasteland’,
‘desolate place’. This became common as a habitational name in the
15th and 16th centuries when places that had been deserted as a result
of the Black Death were resettled.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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