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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of various farmsteads named Barstad, from the Old Norse personal name Bǫrkr or Barði + stad (from Old Norse staðir, plural of staðr ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’).

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