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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of some twenty farmsteads, mainly in Telemark and on the west coast, named Øverland, from øver ‘upper’ + land ‘land’.
  • English : habitational name from Overland Farm in Kent, named with Old English yfer ‘hill brow’ + land ‘land’.

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