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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably a respelling of various Scandinavian ornamental or habitational names (from farms) formed with a first element meaning ‘birch’ + lund ‘grove’, as for example Birkelund, Bjørklund, Bjerklund.

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