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Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of about twenty farmsteads, chiefly in Hordaland, so named from Old Norse Uppheimr, a compound of uppi ‘up’ + heimr ‘farmstead’ (i.e. a farmstead situated on higher ground).
  • German : habitational name from an unidentified place.