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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named. The place name is derived either from Old Norse Hunstad, from the personal name Huni + staðir ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’, or from Hundstad, formed with the nickname Hundr, literally ‘dog’ + the same second element.

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