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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from four farmsteads, notably in Trøndelag, named Oppland, from Old Norse Upplandir, a compound of uppi ‘up’ + land ‘land’, denoting a farmstead situated on relatively high ground.

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