Family name origins & meanings
- German : from Middle High German eidem ‘son-in-law’. See Eiden.
- Norwegian : habitational name from any of various farmsteads in central Norway so named, from Old Norse Ei{dh}heimr (ei{dh} ‘isthmus’ + heimr ‘farm’).
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