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hendon Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from places so named in County Durham and Middlesex. The former was named with Old English hind ‘hind’, ‘female deer’ + denu ‘valley’, and the latter with Old English hean (dative case of heah ‘high’) + dun ‘hill’.

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Distribution of hendon Families in the US in 1920
Number of hendon families
 40-77
 14-39
 1-13
 0
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