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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places so named in County Durham and Middlesex. The former was named with Old English hind ‘hind’, ‘female deer’ + denu ‘valley’, and the latter with Old English hēan (dative case of hēah ‘high’) + dūn ‘hill’.

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