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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of twenty-five or more farmsteads, notably in Agder, Rogaland, and Hordaland, so named from stein ‘stone’ (or the same word as a personal name) + land ‘land’.

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