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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, notably in Oppland and Buskerud, named in Old Norse as Steinsrud, formed generally with the personal name Steinn (meaning ‘stone’) but sometimes with the common noun steinn + ruð ‘clearing’.

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