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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of about fifteen farmsteads, mainly in Hedmark and Oppland, so named from Old Norse as Ulfvin, a compound of either ulfr ‘wolf’ or alfr ‘gravel’ + vin ‘meadow’.

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