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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of over twenty farmsteads named in Old Norse as Hrafnsstaðir, from the personal name Hrafn, meaning ‘raven’ + staðir ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’.
  • Swedish : ornamental name, probably of the same derivation as 1.

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