Last name origins & meanings:
- Northern English and Swedish: from the medieval personal name
Arne, a short form of Arnold or, in Scandinavia, any of
the many other Norse names of which arn ‘eagle’ is the first
element, for example Arnbjörn, Arnfinn, and
Arnsten.
- Norwegian: habitational name from a
farmstead in western Norway, so named from a fjord name meaning ‘the
streaming’, ‘the fjord with the waves’.
- English: habitational name from Arne, a place in Dorset, which is most probably
named with Old English ærn ‘building’, ‘house’.
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