Family name origins & meanings
- Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic ‛eid ‘festivity’. The two principal religious festivals observed by Muslims are ‛Eidul Fitr and ‛Eidul Ạḍhā. ‛Eidul Fitr is observed after completion of fasting in Ramadan, ‛Eidul Ạḍhā is observed as a day of sacrifice commemorating the example of the Prophet Ibrahim, or after completion of the Hajj. Eid is sometimes used as part of the name of a child born on one of these two feast days.
- Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse ei{dh} ‘isthmus’ (see Eide).
- Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Eidt.