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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southeastern Norway, so named from Old Norse Uppigarðr, a compound of uppi ‘up’ + garðr ‘farmstead’, denoting a farmstead situated on relatively high ground.

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