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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from either of two farmsteads in Hordaland named with Matr, originally a fjord name of disputed etymology, possibly related to Old Norse matr ‘food (fish)’ or to an unidentified word meaning ‘wet place’.

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