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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in western Norway, so named from Old Norse Atlastaðir, from the personal name Atli (from Germanic Attala ‘little father’) + staðir ‘place’, ‘farmstead’.

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