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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, notably in Agder and southwestern Norway, so named from the definite singular form of hei ‘heath’, ‘moor’.
  • German : from a short form of any of the Germanic compound personal names formed with hag ‘enclosure’, ‘fenced area’ as the first element.

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