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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Morden in Dorset or Surrey, Guilden or Steeple Morden in Cheshire, or Moredon in Wiltshire, all of which were named in Old English as ‘hill (dūn) in marshland (mōr)’.

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