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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian (Sørum) : habitational name from any of fifteen or more farmsteads in southeastern Norway, named in Old Norse as Suðrheimr, from suðr ‘south’ + heimr ‘homestead’, ‘farm’.

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