Northern English and Scottish: habitational name from any of
various places so named, especially one in Northumbria originally
named in Old English as Idingtun ‘settlement (Old English
tun) associated with Ida’ (see Ide).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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