as a Last Name
- 3,981
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Hedden
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from various places such as Headon, Nottinghamshire, Hedon in East Yorkshire, and Heddon on the Wall and Black Heddon. Northumberland. The first is probably named from Old English hēah ‘high’ + dūn ‘hill’; the others have the same second element, combined with Old English hǣþ ‘heath’, ‘heather’.
| 8,300th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 3,981
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Hedden per capita
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