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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : variant of Ede.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of various farmsteads, especially in western Norway, so named, from Old Norse ei{dh}i, dative case of ei{dh} ‘isthmus’.

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