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The eldon Surname

eldon Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name for someone from Eldon in County Durham or Elveden in Suffolk. The first is named from the Old English personal name Ella + dun ‘hill’; the second from Old English elfitu ‘swan’ or elf ‘elf’, ‘fairy’ + denu ‘valley’.
  2. English: nickname from Middle English eld ‘old’ + hine ‘servant’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the eldon family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of eldon Families in the US in 1920
Number of eldon families
 8-13
 3-7		 1-2
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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