Last Name EDDY

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Meaning	The son of Ede or Edde, pet form Eddy or Eady. Although this female first name is now obsolete, it has made a most remarkable impresson on English directories. It lingered into the 17th century as a first name. Every imaginable variant of this last name is found. No doubt the name was occasionally a nickname of Edward or Edmund, but the above derivation must be looked upon as absolutely decisive in the case of great majority. In the Gaelic, 'Eddee' signifies an instructor. The name may be local from the Saxon 'Ed,' backwards, and 'ea,' water - a current of water running back, a whirlpool. 'Edd,' Welsh, signifies motion, going; 'Eddu,' to go, to move.

Origin	English, Jewish, Irish, Anglo-saxon, Falkland, Austrian

Rank	1,710 (2000 US census)	1,718 (1990 US census)

Count	19,230 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

92.84%, or 17853 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
2.88%, or 554 total occurrences, as black,
0.41%, or 79 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.05%, or 202 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.2%, or 231 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.62%, or 312 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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