Family name origins & meanings
- Swedish (Nordén) : ornamental name formed with norr, nord ‘north’ + the common surname suffix -én, from Latin -enius.
- North German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of several places so called in East Friesland, Schleswig-Holstein, and former East Prussia. The German surname may have arisen as a topographic name from a field so named because of its northerly aspect.
- Dutch : patronymic from Nord 3.
- English : habitational name from a minor place name, probably Norden in West Alvington, Devon, or possibly Norton Green in Stockbury, Kent.