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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Galician : unexplained; it occurs chiefly in Ordes, in Galicia, and is also established in the Philippines.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of four farms so named, most likely from ahn ‘elm’ + dal ‘valley’.

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