First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Irish and English (of Norman origin): habitational name, with fused preposition d(e), for someone from Anvers, the French name of the port of Antwerp in what is now Belgium.