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Origin Of The Surname Howden
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Meaning Of The Surname Howden
From the Town at the Head of the Valley
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Interesting
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Howden
Howden is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old Norse ‘heofod’ meaning head and ‘denu’ meaning valley, combined the mean ‘the head of the valley’. |
Howden Statistics
Howden is the number 1323 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 7,918 share the surname Howden in the UK.
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