First name origins & meanings:
- Hebrew: Delight
- Hawaiian: Delightful
- Babylonian: A plain
- Hebrew: Delight
- Hebrew: Delight
First name variations: Edie, Edan, Edena, Edene, Edin, Edyn, Edna, Edene, Edenia, Edin, Edon, Edona, Edyne, Edena, Edan, Eaden, Eadin, Edin, Edyn, Eiden Last name origins & meanings:
- English: from the Middle English personal name Edun, Old
English Ēadhūn, composed of the elements ēad
‘prosperity’, ‘wealth’ + hūn ‘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.
- Charles Eden (1673–1722), colonial governor of NC under the
lords proprietors from 1714 onward, used the armorial bearings of the
family of Eden of the county palatine of Durham in the north of
England. Of the same connection was Sir Robert Eden, last royal
governor of MD.
This name appears in the following lists:
Animals,
Biblical Names,
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