This one is rare
I was researching names for a book I'm writing, when I came across this last name: Throndsen. It's Irish, and really rare.
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Beautiful love it.
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I shouldn't have trusted google.
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May explain why it's really rare in Ireland.
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Throndsen is Danish
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Where did you come across it and how did you arrive at that interpretation (that it is Irish?). It seems to be a Norwegian name, or possibly, though less likely I think, an anglicization of Þrándarson.
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So, it means "Son of" who then?
Do you remember where you found it?
I often have a hard time tracing my steps when I run into rare names.
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Son of Þrándur/Þrándr/Þrondr etc. It's connected with the place name Trondheim, but the meaning is obscure. It could be a contraction of a speculative dithematic name *Þrá-windr, but that doesn't get us very far, as the meaning of Þrá- is also only speculated.
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