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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : probably a topographic or ornamental name from os ‘river mouth’ or ås ‘hill’, ‘ridge’ + beck, bäck ‘brook’, ‘stream’. Alternatively, the first element may be an altered spelling of ås ‘ridge’.

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