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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name from Middle English north ‘north’ + land ‘land’, or a habitational name from Norland in West Yorkshire, named with Old English norð ‘north’ + land ‘land’, ‘estate’, ‘district’, ‘part of a settlement’.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead so named, from Old Norse nord ‘north’ + land ‘land’, ‘farmstead’.

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