Family name origins & meanings
- Said to be a French Huguenot name. Family genealogists assert that it is recorded in western France, at La Rochelle and Bordeaux, in the departments of Gironde and Charente, in the spellings Amidon and Amadon. If this is the source, the etymology is not known.
- Roger Amidon (alias Ammidown, Amadowne) was in MA in 1637; he died there in 1673.