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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of over fifteen farmsteads, mainly in southeastern Norway, so named from vest ‘west’ + gard ‘farm’.
  • Swedish (Westgaard, Westgård) : ornamental or habitational name of the same etymology as 1.

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