Indian (Kashmir): Hindu (Brahman) name, probably from an
ancestral personal name Madan (from Sanskrit madana ‘god
of love, or infatuation’).Indian (Panjab): Hindu (Arora)
and Sikh name based on the name of an Arora clan, probably from
Persian maidan ‘field’. The name from the Panjab is
pronounced m?dan.English: habitational name
from Mathon in Herefordshire, or Mattins Farm, Radwinter, in Essex, or
Martinfield Green, Saffron Walden, in Essex. The first of these is
named with Old English mathm ‘treasure’, ‘gift’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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