Last Name DURDEN

Summary/Contribute


Meaning Local: Of Dearden or Duerden, or Durden. The precise spot seems to be Dearden, near Edenfield, Bury, county Lancashire. The surname clung for a long time to the immediate district.
Nickname: Duredent, i.e. hard tooth. Durdent may be local as a corruption of Dearden, but it is far more natural to consider it a corrupted form of the nickname.
Local: An old English word signifying a coppice or thicket ef wood in a valley.
Origin English, Spanish, Irish, Croatian

Rank 5,039 (2000 US census) 3,958 (1990 US census)
Count 6,389 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 61.53%, or 3931 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 34.89%, or 2229 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.31%, or 20 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.39%, or 25 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.67%, or 107 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.21%, or 77 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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