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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from farmsteads named Søndrål or Søndrol: in Hallingdal, from Sondre, either a personal name (from Old Norse Sundri) or ‘southern’ + hol ‘rise’, ‘hillock’; in Valdres, from sund ‘sound’, ‘inlet’ + ro ‘corner’, ‘nook’.

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