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The elden Surname

elden Name Meaning and History

  1. Norwegian: habitational name from a farm so named, from a river name derived from Old Norse eldr ‘flame’, ‘fire’, possibly with ironic reference to the icy coldness of the water.
  2. Altered spelling of Eldon.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of elden Families in the US in 1920
Number of elden families
 12-22
 5-11
 1-4
 0
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