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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of eight farms, in particular in Møre og Romsdal, named in Old Norse as Hóheimr, from hór ‘high (up)’ + heimr ‘home’, ‘farmstead’, referring to a farm high up on a mountainside.

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