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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, or more recently formed as a compound of sund ‘strait’, ‘sound’ + heim ‘home’, ‘farmstead’.
  • German : habitation name from any of various places so named.

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