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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named, notably in the county of Rogaland. In most cases, the name is derived from Old Norse Helgaland, from heilagr ‘holy’, ‘sacred’ + land ‘land’ (see Helland).

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