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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads, notably in southeastern Norway, so named from the Old Norse personal name Hǫrðr (someone from Hǫrðaland) or Hárekr (from of unknown origin + rekr ‘powerful’, ‘ruler’) + staðr ‘farmstead’.

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