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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : of uncertain origin. It is either from an unidentified first element He- + -lander ‘inhabitant’ (from land ‘country’, ‘land’), or from an unidentified first element Hel- + -ander (a common Swedish surname suffix based on Greek -andros ‘man’). This surname is also found in Finland.

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