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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from the name of any of seven farmsteads, mainly in the southeast, most of them with names formed from any of various Old Norse personal names + staðir ‘farmstead’,as for example Augunarstaðir, from the personal name Auðun (from Auð ‘wealth’ + un ‘friend’).

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