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Type Surname (from given name & from location)
Other Forms FormsHaldane (Scottish)
Meaning & History
Either a Scottish habitational name from Howden (Midlothian Dumfriesshire). Or a variant of Haldane. Or an English habitational name from any of several places called Howden such as those in East Yorkshire Durham Northumberland and Yorkshire. The East Yorkshire place name derives from Old English heafod "head top headland" later replaced by Old Norse hǫfuth "head headland" and Old English denu "valley". Many of the other placenames derive from Old English hol "hole hollow. And denu.