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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in eastern Norway named Melgård, from Old Norse Meðalgarðr, a compound of meðal ‘mid(dle)’ + garðr ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’, ‘enclosure’.
  • Danish : habitational name from a farmstead named with the same elements as 1.

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