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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of thirty or more farmsteads, notably in Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane, so named from Old Norse Sólheimr, a compound of sól ‘sun’ + heimr ‘home’, ‘farmstead’.

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