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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from the name of several farmsteads in Trøndelag, named with mel ‘middle’ + hus ‘house’, i.e. ‘the house (or farm) in the middle’.
  • Norwegian : spelling variant of Mjølhus, a habitational name from any of seven places (in Rogaland, for instance), named with Old Norse mjǫl ‘flour’ + hus ‘house’

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