Last Name HALDEN

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Meaning The son of Haldane. Haldanus, county Essex; Halden, county Cheshire; Haldene, county Yorks. Earlier, the personal name (not last name) appears as Haldanus, Haldeyn, Haldeynus, and Haldoyn, all county Norfolk.
Local: A contraction of 'Haledon,' a place in Northumberland, England, from the Saxon 'halig,' holy, and 'dun,' a hill; a place where Oswald got the victory of Cadwallader, the Briton, and from this circumstance was called 'the Holy Bill,' and also 'the Heavenly Field.'
Origin English, Norwegian, Irish, Anglo-saxon, Austrian, Hungarian

Rank 77,472 (2000 US census)
Count 230 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 93.04%, or 214 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 3.91%, or 9 total occurrences, as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 2.17%, or 5 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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