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’.