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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from an Old Norse personal name (Eldfríðr (female), Eilífr (male), or Elfr (female)) + stad (from Old Norse staðr ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’).

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