Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire, named in Old English with the personal name Hod + dūn ‘hill’.
- The earliest known bearer of this name is Norman de Hoddesdon, recorded in 1165–66. The surname was taken to America by Nicholas Hodsdon in about 1628, from whom probably all current U.S. bearers of the name are descended.