Last Name EADES

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Meaning	The son of Ede. Eades and Eade are modern variants of Edes and Ede. The son of Ede or Edde, pet form Eddy or Eady. Although this female first name is now obsolete, it has made a most remarkable impresson on English directories. It lingered into the 17th century as a first name. Every imaginable variant of this last name is found. No doubt the name was occasionally a nickname of Edward or Edmund, but the above derivation must be looked upon as absolutely decisive in the case of great majority.

Origin	English, Irish

Rank	6,395 (2000 US census)	5,372 (1990 US census)

Count	4,905 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

86.69%, or 4252 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
9.28%, or 455 total occurrences, as black,
0.39%, or 19 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.51%, or 74 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.24%, or 61 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
0.9%, or 44 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

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Scottish surnames

Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
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