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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farm in southwestern Norway so named, from Old Norse elri ‘alder’ + land ‘land’, ‘farm’.
  • Swedish : probably an ornamental name or possibly a shortened form of the patronymic Erlandsson (see Erlandson).

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