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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Norwood.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of German Naurod, a habitational name from Naurod near Wiesbaden, or Nauroth, a habitational name from Nauroth in the Westerwald, both denoting settlements on newly cleared land. Compare Neuroth.
  • Benjamin Isaac Norrod (1735–1816) came from Buckinghamshire, England, to MD in 1735, and moved on to Stewart Co., TN.

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