Howden Family History
Howden Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place so called near Kelso
on the border with England. Early forms include Hadden,
Hauden, and Halden; the place name is probably from Old
English halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’ + denu
‘valley’.English: habitational name from a place in East
Yorkshire, so named from Old Norse hofuð ‘head’
(replacing Old English heafod) + Old English denu
‘valley’; the first element may have been used in the sense
‘principal’, ‘top’, or ‘end’.Americanized form of
Norwegian Hovden.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Howden Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Howden families
 294 - 586  99 - 293 |
 1 - 98  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Howden families
|
113 - 223 38 - 112 |
1 - 37 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Howden Family Origin
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Howden Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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