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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : reduced form of Van Noordstrand, a topographic name denoting someone from the ‘north shore’.
  • Jacob Jansen van Nostrand (alias van Noorstrand) came from the Netherlands to Long Island in 1638.

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