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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Old Norse female personal name Iðunn(r), probably composed of the elements ið- ‘again’, ‘anew’ + unna ‘to love’. The name is often recorded in the Latin form Idonea, as a result of folk etymological association with the feminine form of Latin idoneus ‘suitable’.

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