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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch (de Tande) : nickname for someone with prominent or otherwise remarkable teeth, from tand ‘tooth’.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of three farmsteads in eastern Norway, named in Old Norse as Tandar; the etymology of the name is uncertain, but it may be derived from Old Norse tǫnn ‘tooth’.

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