The hadden Surname
hadden Name Meaning and History
- Scottish: variant of Howden 1.
- English: variant of Haddon.
- Irish (Ulster and County Louth): though mainly Scottish, this surname is sometimes used as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÉidín ‘descendant of Éidín’ (see Hayden).
- North German (Frisian): from the personal name Hadder, a derivative of any of the Germanic compound names formed with had ‘battle’, ‘strife’ as the first element.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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