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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of about fifteen farmsteads named Oppdal, from Old Norse Uppdalr, from uppi ‘up’ + dalr ‘valley’.
  • Norwegian : altered form of Øvstedal, the name of a farm in western Norway, composed of øvste ‘upper’ + dal ‘valley’.

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