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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Lancashire) : habitational name, probably an altered form of Baxenden, a place near Accrington, which is named with an unattested Old English word bæcstān ‘bakestone’ (a flat stone on which bread was baked) + denu ‘valley’. Middle English dale was sometimes substituted for Old English denu in northern place names.

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