Hadden

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• Scottish : variant of Howden 1.
• English : variant of Haddon.
• Irish (Ulster and County Louth) : though mainly Scottish, this surname is sometimes used as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÉidín ‘descendant of Éidín’ (see Hayden).
• North German (Frisian) : from the personal name Hadder, a derivative of any of the Germanic compound names formed with had ‘battle’, ‘strife’ as the first element.