Last name: EDE

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EDE : This last name is indexed 36,374 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

EDE : 1: English: from a Middle English personal name. This is either the female name Eda a pet form of Edith (Old English Ēadgȳth which is from ēad ‘wealth prosperity’ + gȳth a derivative of gūth ‘war’) or the male personal name Ed(d) a pet form of names such as Edgar Edmund Edward and Edwin in which the first element likewise derives from Old English ēad ‘wealth prosperity’.2: North German: from the ancient Germanic personal name Ede or Edo probably cognates of names in 1 above.3: Americanized form of Norwegian Eide.

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