Last name origins & meanings:
- English: patronymic from the personal name Ade, a
medieval pet form of Adam.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): it is
unclear whether this name is derived from Ades, the Yiddish
name for Odessa, or is an English-based Romanization of the Ashkenazic
family name Eydes, which consists of the Yiddish female
personal name Eyde (a back-formation from Eydl, from
Yiddish eydl ‘noble’) + genitive -s. The Ashkenazic
family name Adesman presents the same difficulty.
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