[Facts] Auden...
Does anyone know where the name Auden derives from or what it means?
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It's best known as the poet's surname - very English, in other words not like Johnson/Jones/Johanssen etc. Looks as if it should mean Old One, though I'm not a surname expert at all.
2nd thoughts ...
Make that: Old Friend, like Alden. (Old One would work, but it doesn't seem to be documented, whereas Old Friend does!)
Make that: Old Friend, like Alden. (Old One would work, but it doesn't seem to be documented, whereas Old Friend does!)
My guess would be that it's a masculine form of Aude, but that's *entirely* a guess, I could be completely wrong!