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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads, notably in Agder and Rogaland, named Omdal or Åmdal, from Old Norse Almdalr, a compound of almr ‘elm’ + dalr ‘valley’.

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