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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from either of two places called Crowden, in Derbyshire and Devon. The first is named from Old English crāwe ‘crow’ + denu ‘valley’; the second from Old English crāwe + dūn ‘hill’.

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