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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Woolen.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads, mainly in Trøndelag, named Vollan, from the definite plural form of Voll (‘meadow’). Compare Wollen.

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