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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of over ten farmsteads so named from the Old Norse personal name Hróarr (see Rogstad) + staðir ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’. The surname is also found in Sweden.
  • Norwegian (Røstad) : variant of Rustad.

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