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The eden Surname

eden Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from the Middle English personal name Edun, Old English Eadhun, composed of the elements ead ‘prosperity’, ‘wealth’ + hun ‘bear-cub’.
  2. English: habitational name from Castle Eden or Eden Burn in County Durham, both of which derive from a British river name perhaps meaning ‘water’, recorded by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd century ad in the form Ituna.
  3. German: habitational name any of several places, mainly in Bavaria and Austria, so named from Middle High German œde ‘wasteland’ + the dative suffix -n.
  4. Frisian: patronymic from the personal name Ede.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of eden Families in the US in 1920
Number of eden families
 40-77
 14-39		 1-13
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