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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and Belgian : habitational name for someone from Hee on the island of Terschelling.
  • Dutch and Belgian : from a Flemish dialect pronunciation of Eede in Zeeland.
  • Dutch and Belgian : topographic name for someone living on a heath, from a reduced form of Vanderheyden.

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