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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in Hordaland, named in Old Norse as either Telgland or Teigland. In each case, the second element is land ‘piece of land’; the first elements are respectively telg ‘bracken’, ‘fern’ and teigr ‘strip of land’.

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