Updated June 9, 2019

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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.