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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : habitational name from Karlstad in western Sweden.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farms in southeastern Norway called Karlstad, from the personal name Karl + stad ‘farm’, ‘place’.
  • Respelling of German and Ashkenazic Jewish Karlstadt, a habitational name from places so named in Franconia and Croatia.

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