The marden Surname
marden Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of various places so
called. One in Wiltshire was named in Old English ‘valley at a
boundary’, from mearc ‘boundary’ + denu ‘valley’; one in
Sussex was named as ‘boundary hill’ (Old English (ge)m?re
‘boundary’ + dun ‘hill’); one in Kent was named ‘mares’
pasture’ (Old English m(i)ere ‘mares’ + denn ‘pasture’);
while the one in Herefordshire was named with British magno-
‘plain’ + Old English worðign ‘enclosure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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