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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of six farmsteads, named in Old Norse as þórisstaðir ‘Thor’s farm’, from þórir (see Thor) + staðir, plural of staðr ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’.

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