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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in Trøndelag, so named from the Old Norse personal name Tryggvi meaning ‘reliable’, ‘fearless’, or an unidentified first element + Old Norse staðr ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’.

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