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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from a place called Norden.
  • German : regional name for a northerner, a derivative of Middle High German norden ‘north’.
  • Swedish : probably an ornamental name formed with nord ‘north’ + the suffix -ér, derived from Latin -erus ‘descendant of’.

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