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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead in Hallingdal named Brunsvoll. The first element of the place name is probably a male personal name, Old Norse Brúnn, from brúnn ‘brown’; the second element is voll ‘meadow’, ‘grassy field’.

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