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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : ornamental name composed of the elements sand ‘sand’ + dahl, an ornamental spelling of dal ‘valley’.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads on the west coast of Norway, named in Old Norse as Sanddalr ‘sand valley’.

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