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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German, Danish, and Swedish : topographic name for someone who lived by the seashore, from Middle Low German, Danish, Swedish strand ‘shore’
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named, from strand ‘shore’.

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