Ebdon
suburban area · North Somerset
Old EnglishSurmised
Suggested2 sources · name elements
Ebdon likely means 'Ebb's farmstead' or 'settlement by the ebb'. It combines a personal name or a term related to tides with the Old English word for farmstead.
Word origins
- Ebb
- Old Englishebb, low tide, personal name(from ebba "personal name", æb "ebb")
- don
- Old Englishfarmstead, settlement(from dūn "down, hill")