English: habitational name from a place called Iden Green in
Benenden, Kent, or Iden Manor in Staplehurst, Kent, or from Iden in
East Sussex. All these places are named in Old English as ‘pasture by
the yew trees’, from ig ‘yew’ + denn ‘pasture’.North German: metronymic or patronymic from the personal
name Ida.
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