Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch and Belgian : topographic name from Middle Dutch heede, heide ‘heath’, ‘moor’, or a habitational name for someone from any of numerous places in Belgium and the Netherlands named with this word, as for example Ter Heide in Belgium or Ter Heijde in the Netherlands.
- This name is recorded in Beverwijck in New Netherland (Albany, NY) in the mid 17th century.