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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : probably a habitational name, from a reduced form of the Oxfordshire place name Ambrosden, which is composed of an Old English personal name Ambre + Old English dūn ‘hill’.
  • Isaac Amsden was in Plymouth Colony in 1647; he died in Cambridge, MA, in 1659.

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