Family name origins & meanings
- Norwegian : habitational name from farmsteads in eastern Norway, named in Old Norse as Nórheimar, from nór ‘narrows’, ‘narrow passage (in a river, fjord, or lake)’ + heimr ‘homestead’, ‘home’.
- Norwegian : Americanized form of Nærum, a habitational name from a farmstead so named from Old Norse Njarðarheimar, which is a compound of Njǫrð (the name of a heathen god) + heimr.