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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of about ten farmsteads so named, mainly in Rogaland and Hordaland, from Old Norse Nesheimr, a compound of nes ‘headland’, ‘promontory’ + heim ‘homestead’, ‘home’.

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