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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Scottish : variant spelling of Hallam.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of three farmsteads so named in southeastern Norway, from either the dative plural of Old Norse hǫll ‘slope’ or Old Norse Hallheimr, a compound of hallr ‘slope’ + heimr ‘farmstead’.

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