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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of four farmsteads named in Old Norse as Nórheimr, from nór ‘narrow passage in a river’, ‘strait’ + heimr ‘homestead’, ‘farmstead’.
  • Swedish : ornamental name formed with the same elements as 1.

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