Amsden
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Frequency: (568)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: probably a habitational name, from a reduced form of the Oxfordshire place name Ambrosden, which is composed of an Old English personal name Ambre + Old English dūn ‘hill’.
FOREBEARS: Isaac Amsden was in Plymouth Colony in 1647; he died in Cambridge, MA, in 1659.
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