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Meaning & History
A Danish habitational name from any of several places named from a word meaning ‘shining’ or ‘clear’, referencing a river.A Norwegian habitational name from any of several farmsteads, from the Old Norse word hæð, meaning ‘hill’ or ‘mound’.A Dutch habitational name from the common place-name ten Heede, meaning ‘on the heath’.