Norden Family History

Swedish (also Nordén): ornamental name formed with nord ‘north’ + the adjectival suffix -én/-en a derivative of Latin -enius ‘relating to’. Compare Nordin. North German, East Frisian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of several places so called in Schleswig-Holstein, East Frisia, and former East Prussia.

The German surname may have arisen as a topographic name from a field so named because of its northerly aspect. English: habitational name from Norton Green in Stockbury, Kent. The placename derives from Old English north ‘northern, north’ + denn ‘woodland pasture’.

Alternatively, from Norden in West Alvington, Devon (from Old English north + dūn ‘north(ern) hill’) or from one or more of several minor places in Devon called Northdown (in Bideford, Merton, Throwleigh, and Thorverton), all named with Middle English bi northe doune ‘(place) to the north of the hill’.

Alternatively, a variant of Norton. English: variant of Northen or Northern.