name: A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #27752)
noun: Initialism of Ethnikos Dimokratikos Ellinikos Syndesmos, ΕΔΕΣ, Εθνικός Δημοκρατικός Ελληνικός Σύνδεσμος (the National Republican Greek League), one of the two major resistance groups in Greece during the Axis Occupation of Greece during World War II.
