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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : from a patronymic from Tollef, a variant of Torleiv, from Old Norse þorleifr, formed with þórr, name of the Scandinavian god of thunder (see Thor) + leifr ‘heir’, ‘descendant’.

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