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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