Glidden

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

English (Devon) : apparently a habitational name possibly from Glidden in Hampshire, which is named from Old English gleoda ‘kite’ + dūn ‘hill’. Compare Gledhill. However, the concentration of the surname in Devon suggests that it may also have arisen from another place, now lost.

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