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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads, notably in Møre and Trøndelag, named in Old Norse either as Húsastaðir (from hús ‘house’ + staðir ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’) or as Hústaðr ‘(house)lot’, ‘site’.

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