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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse Heggsstaðir, probably from the personal name Heggr (from heggr ‘bird cherry (tree)’) + staðir ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.

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