Eden Family History
Eden Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Edun, Old
English Eadhun, composed of the elements ead
‘prosperity’, ‘wealth’ + hun ‘bear-cub’.English:
habitational name from Castle Eden or Eden Burn in County Durham, both
of which derive from a British river name perhaps meaning ‘water’,
recorded by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd century
ad in the form Ituna.German: habitational name
any of several places, mainly in Bavaria and Austria, so named from
Middle High German œde ‘wasteland’ + the dative suffix
-n.Frisian: patronymic from the personal name Ede.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Eden Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Eden families
 40 - 77  14 - 39 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Eden families
|
295 - 588 99 - 294 |
1 - 98 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Eden families
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Eden Family Origin
Eden Immigration Information
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Eden Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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