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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from various farmsteads in Hordaland named Kallestad, from the Old Norse personal name Karli, a compound of karl ‘(free) man’, or a river name derived from kaldr ‘cold’ + staðir ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’.

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