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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of six farmsteads in Rogaland and Hordaland named in Old Norse as Stangaland, from stǫng ‘pole’, ‘bar’ + land ‘land’, ‘farm’; the significance of this is not clear.

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