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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : possibly a habitational name from Oland, an island in the Husum district of Schleswig-Holstein, or Ohland in the Rhineland (near Geldern).
  • Swedish : ornamental name composed of an unexplained first element + land ‘land’.

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