Norwegian Submitted Surnames

AA Norwegian
Derived from aa, an obsolete spelling of Norwegian å "small river, stream".

AABERG Danish, Norwegian
Danish and Norwegian cognate of ÅBERG.

AABY Norwegian, Danish
From a place called Aaby or Åby, from Old Norse á "small river, stream" and býr "farm".

AADLAND Norwegian
Derived from a place called Ådland, from Old Norse Árland "land by the river".

AAKER Norwegian (Rare)
Variant of ÅKER.

AAMODT Norwegian
Combination of aa, an obsolete spelling of Norwegian å "small river, stream" and møte "meeting".

AAMOT Norwegian
Variant of AAMODT.

AARHUS Norwegian
Derived from any of the farms so named, from Old Norse á "river" and hús "house, farmstead".

AAS Norwegian, Danish
Variant spelling of ÅS.

AASEN Norwegian
Means "the ridge" in Norwegian. Definite singular form of AAS.

ÅKER Swedish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare)
From Swedish and Norwegian åker "plowed field".

AKSNES Norwegian

ALBINSEN Danish, Norwegian
Means "Son of Albin".

ALEKSANDERSEN Danish, Norwegian
Means "son of ALEKSANDER".

ALFSEN Norwegian
Norwegian cognate of ALFSSON.

ALFSTAD Norwegian (Rare)
Possibly a combination of the given name Alf and stad "city, town".

ALLANSEN Danish, Norwegian
Means "son of ALLAN".

ÅMOLD Norwegian (Rare)

ÅMOT Norwegian (Rare)
Variant of AAMODT.

ANDERSSEN Norwegian
Means "son of ANDERS".

ANDRESEN Norwegian
Means "son of ANDRE".

ANGELL Norwegian

ARNEMO Swedish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare)

ARNESON Norwegian (Rare), Swedish (Rare)
Means "son of Arne".

ÅS Swedish, Norwegian
Means "ridge, esker" in Swedish and Norwegian.

ASBJØRNSEN Norwegian, Danish
Means "son of ASBJØRN".

ASLAKSEN Norwegian, Danish (Rare)
Means "son of ASLAK".

ASLANSEN Norwegian, Danish
Means "son of ASLAN".

ASPLUND Swedish, Norwegian (Rare)
Combination of Swedish asp "aspen" and lund "grove".

AUNE Norwegian
Derived from Old Norse auðn "wasteland, desolate place".

AWSUMB Norwegian
Norwegian habitation surname. Åsum/Aasum/Aasumb is a common place name in Scandinavia, generally referring to an ancient farm or homestead. Derived from Old Norse aas ‘hill’ + um ‘around’. Norwegian emigrants from the Åsum farm in the traditional district of Vinger (Hedmark, Norway) adopted the Anglicized spelling ‘Awsumb’ after arriving in North America in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

AXEL German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English (Rare)
From the given name AXEL.

BAHUS Norwegian (Rare)

BAKKE Norwegian
Means "slope, hillside" in Norwegian.

BAKKEN Norwegian
Definite singular form of BAKKE.

BÅRDSEN Norwegian
Means "son of BÅRD".

BAY Danish, Norwegian (Rare)
Likely a reduced form of German BAYER.

BENDTSDATTER Danish (Archaic), Norwegian (Archaic)
Strictly feminine patronymic for BENDT.

BERGE Norwegian, German, Swedish
Variant of BERG.

BIRKELAND Norwegian
Derived from Old Norse birki "birch" and land "farm, land". Birkeland is the name of a village and parish in western Norway. The parish got it's name from an old farm. The parish church was built on the same spot where the farm once was.

BJØRKLUND Norwegian
From any of several farms named with Norwegian bjørk "birch" and lund "grove".

BJØRNSEN Norwegian, Danish
Means "son of BJØRN".

BJØRNSON Norwegian (Rare)
Variant of BJØRNSEN.

BØ Norwegian
Variant of BØE. A notable bearer is Norwegian biathlete TARJEI Bø (b. 1988).

BØE Norwegian
Derived from Old Norse býr "farm, village, settlement" or búa "to reside".

BØEN Norwegian
Habitational name from the common farm name Bøen, simply meaning "the farm" (ultimately derived from Old Norse býr "farm, village, settlement" and the definite article -en).

BOMENGEN English (American), Norwegian (Rare)
Name created from during immigration from Norway to the United States in either the late 19th or early 20th century meaning, "The farm with the big gate."

BONDE Norwegian (Rare)
From a farm named Bonde, named with Old Norse bóndi "farmer" and vin "meadow".

BORGEDALEN Norwegian (Rare)
Combination of Norwegian borg "fortification, castle" and dal "valley".

BORSHEIM Norwegian (Rare)
Habitational name from either of two farmsteads in Norway: Borsheim in Rogaland and Børsheim in Hordaland. Borsheim is a combination of an unknown first element and Norwegian heim "home", while Børsheim is a combination of Old Norse byrgi "fence, enclosure" and heim.

BRAATEN Norwegian
Variant of BRÅTHEN.

BRAGER Norwegian (Rare)
From the name of any of the various farmsteads in eastern Norway, which may have derived their name from a river name meaning "roaring", "thundering".

BRÅTHEN Norwegian
Derived from Old Norse broti "land cleared for cultivation by burning". This was a common farm name in southeastern Norway.

BREIVIK Norwegian
Variant of BREVIK.

BREKKE Norwegian
Derived from Old Norse brekka meaning "hill, slope".

BREVIK Norwegian
Habitational name from any of several farms named Brevik, from Norwegian bred "broad" and vik "bay".

BROVAN Norwegian

BRYNILSEN Norwegian (Rare)
Means "son of BRYNIL".

BRYNJULFSEN Norwegian
Means "son of BRYNJULF".

BRYNTESEN Norwegian (Rare)
Means "son of BRYNTE".

BRYNTESON Norwegian (Rare)
Variant of BRYNTESEN.

BYBERG Norwegian, Swedish (Rare)
Combination of Swedish and Norwegian by "village" and berg "mountain".

BYE Norwegian

CHELLBERG Swedish (Anglicized), Norwegian (Anglicized, Rare)
Anglicised form of KJELLBERG.

CLEVELAND Norwegian (Anglicized)
Americanized spelling of Norwegian Kleiveland or Kleveland, habitational names from any of five farmsteads in Agder and Vestlandet named with Old Norse kleif "rocky ascent" or klefi "closet" (an allusion to a hollow land formation) and land "land".

CONRADI German, Danish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare)
Derived from a patronymic from the given name KONRAD.

DAAE Literature, Norwegian, Danish (Rare), Swedish (Rare)
Norwegian surname, originating in Trondheim in the 17th century. Also a variant of Daa, the name of a Danish noble family which originated in Southern Jutland in the 14th century... [more]

DALE Norwegian, Danish
Habitational name from any of the various farmsteads called Dale in Norway. Derived from Old Norse dalr "valley".

DJURHUUS Danish, Faroese, Norwegian (Rare)

DRAG Norwegian (Rare)
Habitational name from any of several farms named Drag. The place name is related to Old Norse draga "to pull" (compare modern Norwegian dra with the same meaning) and originally denoted a place where boats were pulled along a river or across an isthmus.

ECKLAND English (Rare), Norwegian (Anglicized, Rare, Expatriate), Swedish (Anglicized, Expatriate)
Possibly a variant of ECKLUND. It might also be an anglicization of the rare Swedish surname EKLAND or of a Norwegian name derived from several farmsteads named with eik "oak" and land "land".

EDVARDSEN Norwegian, Danish
Means "son of EDVARD".

EEK Swedish, Norwegian
Variant of EK.

EGELAND Norwegian
From the name of several farmsteads in Norway named with Norwegian eik "oak" and land "land".

EGNER Norwegian (Rare)
From the name of a farm in Norway, of unknown origin. A known bearer was Norwegian playwright Thorbjørn Egner (1912-1990).

EIDE Norwegian
Derived from Old Norse eið "isthmus".

EIDSNESS Norwegian (Expatriate)
From Old Norse eið "isthmus" and nes "headland". This was the name of a farmstead in Norway.

EKERN Norwegian (Rare)
From Old Norse ekra "meadow, field". This was the name of a farmstead in Norway.

ELIASSEN Norwegian, Danish
Means "son of ELIAS".

ELLEFSEN Norwegian
Means "son of ELLEF".

ELLINGSEN Norwegian
Means "son of ELLING".

ELLINGSON Norwegian
The name Ellingson came from Norway and was spelled ELLINGSEN but then it was changed to fit with more common English spelling. Ellingson most likely came from the son of Elling but may have more meanings.

EMILSEN Danish, Norwegian
Means "Son of Emil"

ENDRESEN Norwegian
Means "son of ENDRE (2)".

ENG Swedish, Norwegian
Derived from Old Norse eng "meadow".

ENGEBRETSEN Norwegian
Means "son of ENGEBRET".

ENGELSEN Norwegian
Means "son of ENGEL".

ENGEN Norwegian
From the name of several farms in Norway named with the singular definite form of ENG.

ENGLAND Norwegian (Rare)
From the name of several farms in Norway, named with Old Norse eng "meadow" and land "land".

ENGSTRØM Norwegian, Danish
Norwegian and Danish form of ENGSTRÖM.

ENOKSEN Norwegian, Greenlandic
Means "son of ENOK".

ERICSEN Danish, Norwegian
Means 'Son of ERIC'.

ERLINGSEN Norwegian
Means "son of ERLING".

EVENRUD Norwegian, American
From the name of several farms in Eastern Norway.

EVERSOL Norwegian

FALCK Swedish, German, Danish, Norwegian
Variant of FALK.

FALKENBERG German, Danish, Swedish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare)
Habitational name from any of several places named from Old High German falk "falcon" and berg "mountain, hill".

FALSEN Norwegian (Rare)
Means "son of Falle".

FEET Norwegian

FERGUSEN Norwegian, Danish
Means 'Son of Fergus'.

FETT Norwegian (Rare)
Derived from Old Norse fit "land, shore". This was the name of several farmsteads in Norway.

FINNSETH Norwegian

FINSTAD Norwegian
Means "Finn's farmstead", from the given name FINN (2) and Old Norse staðr "farmstead, dwelling". This was the name of several farms in Norway.

FISKE English, Norwegian
From the traditionally Norwegian habitational surname, from the Old Norse fiskr "fish" and vin "meadow". In England and Denmark it was a surname denoting someone who was a "fisherman" or earned their living from selling fish.

FIVELAND Norwegian (Rare)
From the name of a farm in Norway named with the word fivel possibly meaning "cottongrass, bog cotton". This plant grows in abundance in the marshy land near the location of the farm.

FJERMESTAD Norwegian

FLESJÅ Norwegian

FLO Norwegian
Famous bearers include Norwegian footballers and relatives Tore ANDRE, HÅVARD, and JOSTEIN Flo of the Norwegian national team that upset Brazil twice in both a friendly in 1997 and a 1998 World Cup group match.

FLOBERG Swedish, Norwegian (Rare)
Of uncertain origin. Could possibly be combination of flo, an unexplained element (but probably either ornamental or locational), and berg "mountain", or a habitational name from a place so named.

FLØISTAD Norwegian (Rare)

FLØLO Norwegian (Rare)

FØIEN Norwegian
Variant of FØYEN.

FØRDE Norwegian
From Old Norse fyrði dative form of fjórðr "fjord". This was the name of several farmsteads in Norway.

FORNES Norwegian
Habitational name from various farmsteads in Norway named furanes or fornes.

FORNESS English (British), Norwegian
Variant of FORNES or FURNESS.

FORREN Norwegian (Rare)
Derived form the name of a farmstead in Norway named with a word meaning "hollow, gorge".

FØYEN Norwegian
Named after a small island originally called Føyen, now known as Føynland in the Vestfold county of Norway. ... [more]

FRANTZEN Norwegian, Danish, Swedish
Variant of FRANZÉN.

FRIIS Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Variant of FRIES, found predominantly in Denmark.

FUGLESANG Norwegian, Swedish (Rare)
Means "bird song" in Norwegian (compare German VOGELSANG).

GERHARDSEN Norwegian, Danish
Means "son of GERHARD".

GIVERHAUG Norwegian

GJESSING Norwegian, Danish (Rare)
Used in Norway and Denmark since the 1600s. Probably of German origin.

GLØERSEN Norwegian (Rare)
Means ”son of GLØER”.

GODSÆT Norwegian (Archaic)

GRÅBERG Swedish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare)

GRAV Norwegian, English

GREEN Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
Variant of GREN.

GREGERSEN Danish, Norwegian
Means "son of GREGERS".

GRIEG Norwegian
Derived from the Scottish surname of Greig.

GRIMM English, German, Danish, Swedish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare)
From a nickname for a stern and forbidding individual, derived from the Old High German word grim "stern, severe". Or possibly from the given name GRÍMR derived from Old Norse gríma "mask, helmet"... [more]

GUDBRANDSEN Norwegian
Means "son of GUDBRAND".

GUDMUNDSEN Norwegian, Danish (Rare)
Means "son of GUDMUND".

GUDMUNDSSON Swedish, Danish, Norwegian (Rare)
Means "son of GUDMUND".

GULLBRANDSEN Norwegian (Rare), Danish (Rare)
Rare variant of GULBRANDSEN.

GUNTERSEN Norwegian
Means "son of GUNTER".

HAALAND Norwegian
From Old Norse Hávaland, derived from hár "high" and land "land, farm". This is the name of several farms in Norway.

HÅKONSEN Norwegian
Means "son of HÅKON".

HÅLAND Norwegian
Variant of HAALAND.

HALVORSON Norwegian (Rare)
Variant of HALVORSEN.

HAMMERSMED Norwegian (Archaic, ?), Danish (Archaic, ?)
Occupational name for a blacksmith, from Danish & Norwegian hammer, 'hammer' and smed, 'smith'. See HAMMERSMITH

HARALDSON Norwegian
Variant of HARALDSEN.

HASLE Norwegian

HASSEL Swedish, Norwegian
Means "hazel" in Swedish and Norwegian.

HAUG Norwegian
From Old Norse haugr "hill, mound". See HAUGEN.

HAUGAN Norwegian
Originates from a Farm name. Haugan comes from the Old Norse word haugr which can be translatd to "hill" or "mound".

HAUGE Norwegian
Habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Hauge, from the dative singular of Old Norse haugr "hill, mound".

HAUGLAND Norwegian
From Old Norse haugr "hill, mound" and land "farmstead, land".

HAUKEBØ Norwegian
A combination of Norwegian hauk, derived from Old Norse haukr, "hawk" and bø, derived from Old Norse bœr, "farm". The meaning refers to hawks sitting abode; as on the roof of a barn.

HEE Danish, Norwegian, Dutch
A Danish habitational name from any of several places named from a word meaning ‘shining’ or ‘clear’, referencing a river.... [more]

HEGGE Norwegian

HELLAND Norwegian
The Old Norse name element -land meaning "country, land" combined with either Old Norse hella "flat rock" or hellir "cave". ... [more]

HERIGSTAD Norwegian

HJERMSTAD Norwegian (Rare)
Hjerm means royal swords, stad means place. So Hjermstad means "place for the King's swords".

HJORNEVIK Norwegian
Named after the town of Hjørnevik, Norway

HJORTH Swedish, Danish, Norwegian (Rare)
Variant of HJORT.

HOLM Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English
Derived from Old Norse holmr, meaning "islet".

HOLTER English, German, Norwegian
Derived from English holt meaning "small wood". A topographic name for someone who lived near a small wooden area, as well as a habitational name from a place named with that element.

HOPPERSTAD Norwegian
Probably a habitational name from a farm name in Norway.

HOVDA Norwegian
Habitational name from the many farmsteads in Norway named Hovda. Derived from Old Norse hófði "rounded peak", itself derived from Old Norse hofuð "head".

HOVDE Norwegian
Variant of HOVDA.

IDEN Norwegian

INGEBRETSEN Norwegian
Means "son of Ingebret". The given name Ingebret is a Norwegian alteration of ENGELBERT (see also ENGEBRET).

INGEBRETSON Norwegian
Patronymic from the German personal name Engelbrecht.

INGEBRITSON Norwegian
Patronymic from the German personal name Engelbrecht.

ISLAND Norwegian
Habitational name from any of four farmsteads so named. The origin of their name is not certain; it may be a compound of is "ice" and land "land" or from Island "Iceland" (the name of the country).

JENSDATTER Norwegian, Danish
Strictly feminine patronymic of JENS.

JENSSEN Norwegian, Danish
Variant of JENSEN.

JOHANNESEN Norwegian, Danish
Means "son of JOHANNES".

JONAS Danish, German, Dutch, Norwegian
From the given name Jonas

JONSEN Norwegian
Means 'Son of Jon (1)'.

JØRSTAD Norwegian

JOSEFSEN Danish, Norwegian
Means "son of JOSEF" in Danish and Norwegian.

JOSVASEN Danish (Rare), Norwegian (?)
Means "son of JOSVA".

JUEL Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
Alternate form of JUHL. This variant of the name can be traced back to the 14th century and is the name of a Danish noble family sometimes referred to as "Juel med stjernen" meaning "Juel with the star" in reference to their coat-of-arms, as a way to distinguish them from another Danish noble family - the JUUL-family - who in turn are known as "Juul with the fleur-de-lis"... [more]

JUHL Danish, Norwegian (Rare), Low German
Likely originating as a nickname for people born around Christmas or who had a connection with that time of year, from the Old Norse jól, which was the name of the Nordic pagan midwinter festival, or modern Danish jul meaning "Christmas" (cf... [more]

JUUL Danish, Norwegian
Alternate form of JUHL. This variant of the name can be traced back to the 13th century as the name of a Danish noble family still alive today. The family is sometimes referred to as "Juul med liljen" meaning "Juul with the fleur-de-lis" in reference to their coat-of-arms, as a way to distinguish them from another Danish noble family - the JUEL-family - who in turn are known as "Juel with the star"... [more]

KAMPAUGH Norwegian

KANE Irish, Norwegian
From the anglicized Irish surname Cathan, meaning "warlike." In Norway, it's used as a noble name.

KEYN Norwegian (Rare)
Derived from the Norwegian word for "strong pillar".

KIELLAND Norwegian
Alexander Kielland was a Norwegian writer (1849–1906).

KJÆR Danish, Norwegian
Topographic name for someone living near a wetland. Derived from Old Norse kjarr "swamp, bog".

KJELLA Norwegian (?)
Meaning unknown, but it might be related to the given name KJELL.

KJELLBERG Swedish, Norwegian (Rare)
Old Norse kelda or Swedish källa, both meaning "spring (geology)", combined with berg "mountain, hill".

KJELLSEN Norwegian
Means "son of KJELL"

KJØLAAS Norwegian

KLINTSEN Norwegian, Danish
Means "son of KLINT".

KOLDEN German, Norwegian
From Middle Low German kolt, kolde ‘cold’, a nickname for an unfriendly person; alternatively, it may be a habitational name, a shortened form of Koldenhof ‘cold farm’ in Mecklenburg (standardized form: Kaltenhof, a frequent place name in northern Germany, East Prussia, Bavaria, and Württemberg).Norwegian: habitational name from a farm called Kolden, from Old Norse kollr ‘rounded mountain top’.

KROG Norwegian, Danish
Habitational name from places named with krog "corner, bend".

KUL German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Derived from Old High German kol meaning "coal", perhaps an occupational name for a miner or coal seller.

LANDE French, Norwegian, Jewish
French: topographic name for someone living on a heath, lande (from Gaulish landa ‘space’, ‘land’), or a habitational name from any of numerous minor places named La Lande from this word.... [more]

LANGELAND Norwegian
Derived from the elements lang meaning "long" and land meaning "land" or "farmstead".

LANGLAND Norwegian
Variant of LANGELAND.

LARS Swedish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare), German
Patronymic from the given name LARS.

LARSDATTER Norwegian, Danish
Strictly feminine patronymic for LARS.

LARSSEN Norwegian
Variant of LARSEN.

LAURSEN German, Norwegian, Danish
Norwegian, Danish, and North German: patronymic from LAUR, a short form of LAWRENCE.

LAXMAN Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

LIE Norwegian
Variant spelling of Li. Derived from Old Norse hlíð "hillside, mountain slope".

LIEN Norwegian
Variant of LIE.

LINDE German, Dutch, Jewish, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Topographic name for someone who lived by a conspicuous lime tree, from Middle High German, Dutch linde, Scandinavian lind. There are several places, especially in North Germany, named with this word... [more]

LINDSTRØM Norwegian
Norwegian form of LINDSTRÖM.

LINE Danish, Norwegian, French
From the given name LINE.

LØKKEN Norwegian
Habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so called. Derived from Old Norse lykkja "enclosure".

LØVAAS Norwegian
Ultimately derived from Old Norse lauf "leaf, foliage" and áss "hill, ridge". Taken from any of the many farms in Norway named Løvaas,

LOVEN Norwegian (Rare), American (Rare)
From a farm (later renamed to Låvi) in Aurland municipality in Sogn og Fjordane fylke.... [more]

LØVGREN Norwegian
Norwegian form of LÖFGREN.

LUKAS German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Lithuanian
From the given name LUKAS.

LUNDE Norwegian, Danish
Variant of LUND.

LUNN Norwegian, English
Derived from LUND, which in turn comes from the Old Norse lundr, meaning "grove of trees".

LYKKEN Norwegian
Varient of LØKKEN.

LYNGSTAD Norwegian
Anni-Frid Lyngstad (b. 1945) is a Norwegian-born Swedish singer and former member of ABBA.

LYSTAD Norwegian
From the name of several farms in Norway. One family got their name from a farm in Ullensaker municipality in Akershus county. Another family got it name from a farm called Ljøstad in Hedmark county.

MAGNUS English, Scottish, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
From the given name MAGNUS.

MAGNUSSEN Danish, Norwegian
Means "son of MAGNUS."

MALM Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish
Means "ore" in the Scandinavian languages.

MANUS Norwegian (Hispanicized)
Hispanicized variant of MAGNUSSEN. This was the surname of Norwegian World War II resistance fighter Max Manus, whose father spent much of his life living in Hispanophone countries.

MARKUS German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian
From the given name MARKUS.

MATHISEN Norwegian, Danish
Means "son of MATHIES".

MATTEUSEN Norwegian
Means "son of MATTEUS" in Norwegian.

MATTISEN Norwegian (Rare)
Means son of MATTIS

MAURITSEN Norwegian (Rare)
Means "son of MAURITS".

MEIERAN Norwegian

MELBY Norwegian
Modern form of Meðalbýr meaning "middle farm", a combination of Old Norse meðal "middle" and býr "farm".

MELLUM Norwegian

MIKKELBORG Norwegian
Norwegian variant of the originally German surname MECKLENBURG, which came to Norway during the hanseatic era.

MOE Norwegian
Means "sandy ground" in Norwegian.

MOEN Norwegian
Means "the sandy ground" in Norwegian.

MOGENSEN Danish, Norwegian
Means "son of MOGENS".

MØRK Norwegian
From Old Norse mork "wood". This was the name of several farmsteads in Norway.

MOSEID Norwegian (Modern, Rare)
From Moseid Farm in southern Norway.

MOSSING Norwegian
Habitational name from a farm name in Trøndelag, probably named with mose meaning "moss" + vin meaning "meadow".

MYHRE Norwegian
Derived from Norwegian myr "bog, swamp".

MYKLEBUST Norwegian
Derived from Old Norse Myklibólstaðr meaning "large farm". From mikill "large" and bólstaðr "farm".

NAKARADA Norwegian
From the Norwegian composer Alexander Nakarada, who is the founder of SerpentSound Studios. His main focus is to make it easier for all creative people around the globe to get good music for their work.

NANSEN Danish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare)
Patronymic name derived from an unknown given name.

NERBY English, Norwegian, Swedish (Rare)
From Old Norse neðri "lowest" and býr "farm".

NORDAHL Norwegian, Swedish
The surname derives from a place name in Sunnmøre, Norway. Meaning from Old Norse norðr ''north'' and dalr ''dale'', ''valley''. In Sweden, this name is mostly ornamental, rather than habitaional.

NORDAL Norwegian
Variant of NORDAHL.

NORDKVELLE Norwegian (Rare)

NYGÅRD Norwegian, Swedish
Means "new farm". A combination of ny "new" and gård "farm, yard".

NYLAND Norwegian
Combination of Norwegian ny "new" and land "land, yard".

ØDEGÅRD Norwegian
Means "deserted farm" in Norwegian. A combination of øde "deserted, empty" and gård "farm, yard".

ODLAND Norwegian
Habitational name from any of several farmsteads in Rogaland and Hordaland named Odland, from Old Norse Árland, a compound of á ‘small river’ (or another first element of uncertain origin) + land ‘land’, ‘farm’.

OLAF Norwegian
From the name OLAF.

OLAFSEN Norwegian, Danish (Rare)
Means "son of OLAF".

OLAFSON English, Norwegian (Rare), Danish (Rare)
Variant of OLAFSEN.

OLAVSEN Norwegian
Means "son of OLAV".

OLSTAD Norwegian

OPPEGÅRD Norwegian
Habitational name meaning "upper farm". Derived from Old Norse uppi "upper" and garðr "farm, yard". This was the name of several farmsteads in Norway. ... [more]

ØSTBY Norwegian
Habitational name from farmsteads in Norway named Østby or Austby. Derived from Old Norse aust "east" and býr "farm, village".

OSTBY Norwegian (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of ØSTBY.

ØSTHAGEN Norwegian
An uncommon Norwegian surname of uncertain origin. It is most likely a locational name, derived from Norwegian øst, 'east' and hagen, 'enclosure'. ... [more]

OVERSON Danish, Norwegian
Altered spelling of Oveson, itself a patronymic from the personal name Ove, a Danish form of the older Aghi, with a second element possibly meaning "spear".

PÅLSEN Norwegian (Rare), Danish (Rare)
Means "son of PÅL".

PARELIUS Norwegian
Latinization of a learned Hellenized translation of either Solvorn, a placename in Luster (Sogn og Fjordane), or of Solnør, a placename in Skodje/Ørskog (Møre og Romsdal), Norway. The surname itself is then derived from Greek para heliou "near (or close by) the sun".

PATRIKSEN Norwegian, Danish
Means 'Son of Patrik'.

PRYTZ Swedish, Norwegian
Swedish and Norwegian surname, possibly of German origin.

QUISLING Norwegian
A treacherous person who sides with opposing forces, this meaning comes from Vidkun Quisling of Norway. He helped the Germans during the German rule of Norway in the 1940's. Original meaning "One from" (-ling) "Quislemark", (quis) A romanization of the place name of Kvislemark.

RAFAELSEN Norwegian, Danish
Means "son of RAFAEL".

RAGNVALDSEN Norwegian, Danish
Means "son of RAGNVALD".

RASSMUSSEN Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish
Means "son of RASMUS".

REKDAL Norwegian
The name of people from the small town Rekdal in West-Norway. Former footballer Kjetil Rekdal (1968- ) is the most known person from there.

RICHARDSEN Norwegian

ROBINSEN Norwegian, Danish
Means "son of ROBIN".

RODNE Norwegian (Rare, ?)

RODRIKSEN Norwegian (Rare)
Means 'Son of Rodrik'. Rodrik is the Swedish and Norwegian form of RODERICK.

ROE Norwegian
Habitational surname for any of the several farmsteads named Roe or Røe, derived from the Old Norse ruð meaning "clearing".

ROISUM Norwegian
Habitational name from the farmstead in Sogn named Røysum, from the dative plural of Old Norse reysi ‘heap of stones’.

ROLFSEN Norwegian
Means "son of ROLF".

ROMANSEN Danish, Norwegian
Means 'Son of ROMAN'.

RONNEBERG Norwegian

RØNNING Norwegian
From Old Norse Ryðningr, from ruð "clearing".

ROSENBORG Norwegian
Norwegian form of ROSENBERG.

ROSHOLT Norwegian
Norwegian: habitational name from either of two farms called Røsholt in southeastern Norway, named with Old Norse, either ross ‘mare’ or ruð ‘clearing’ + holt ‘grove’, ‘wood’.

ROSSING Norwegian
ross (came from scotland) ing - added in Norway

RUDE Norwegian, German
German: From a pet form of a personal name formed with Old High German hrōd "fame", for example RUDOLF or RÜDIGER... [more]

SÆTHER Norwegian
Derived from Old Norse sætr "farm".

SAMUELSEN Norwegian, Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (Rare)
Means "Son of Samuel"

SAND English, Scottish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, Jewish
Topographic name for someone who lived on patch of sandy soil, from the vocabulary word sand. As a Swedish or Jewish name it was often purely ornamental.

SANDBERG Swedish, German, Norwegian
Either a Swedish and Norwegian combination of sand "sand" and berg "mountain", or (Middle High) German combination of sand "sand" and berc "mountain".

SANDE Norwegian
Habitational name from any of forty or more farmsteads so named, especially on the west coast, from the dative case of Old Norse sandr meaning "sand", "sandy plain", "beach".

SANDVIK Norwegian, Swedish
A combination of sand "sand" and vik "bay, inlet".

SAX English, Norwegian
English from an Old Norse personal name, SAXI meaning ‘sword’.

SCHAU Norwegian
Variant of SKAU.

SEEHUUS Norwegian
Norwegian for "house by the sea."

SELLAND Norwegian
From the Old Norse habitational name Seljuland, from selja "willow" and land "land", "farm".

SEM Norwegian
Norwegian: habitational name from any of about fifteen farms so named, a variant of SEIM.

SETHER Norwegian
Habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Seter or Sæter.

SILFVERGÅRD Swedish, Norwegian

SIMENSEN Norwegian
Means "son of SIMEN".

SIVERTSEN Dutch, Danish, Norwegian
Patronymic of SIVERT.... [more]

SJØLSENG Norwegian
Means silver meadow

SKARSTAD Norwegian
From a farm named Skarstad

SKAU Norwegian, Danish
Ultimately derived from Old Norse skógr "forest".

SKEIE Norwegian
From Old Norse skeið "race, horse race".

SKELTON English, German, Norwegian (Rare)
Habitational name from places in Cumbria and Yorkshire, England, originally named with the same elements as SHELTON, but with a later change of ‘s’ to ‘sk’ under Scandinavian influence.

SKOG Norwegian, Swedish
Means "forest" in Norwegian and Swedish.

SKOGLUND Swedish, Norwegian
Combination of Swedish and Norwegian skog "forest" and lund "grove".

SMED Norwegian, Swedish, Danish
Scandinavian cognate of SMITH.