Norwegian Submitted Surnames

Norwegian names are used in the country of Norway in northern Europe. See also about Scandinavian names.

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

Nystrøm Norwegian, Danish
Norwegian and Danish form of Nyström.

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

Onstad Norwegian, German
habitational name from the name of any of seven farmsteads mainly in the southeast most of them with names formed from any of various Old Norse personal names plus stathir "farmstead" as for example Augunarstathir from the personal name Authun (from Auth "wealth" plus un "friend")... [more]

Onstott Norwegian, German
Variant of Onstad.

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]

Opstad Norwegian
Norwegian: habitational name from any of ten farmsteads in southeastern Norway named Olstad, from a contracted form of Old Norse Ólafsstaðir, from the personal name Ólaf + staðir, plural of staðr ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’.

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]

Østigård Norwegian

Østmo Norwegian

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".

Øy Norwegian
From Norwegian øy meaning "island".

Øyen Norwegian
Means "the island" in Norwegian.

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'.

Persen Norwegian
Norwegian form of Persson.

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".

Rambo Swedish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare)
Combination of Norwegian and (dialectal) Swedish ramn "raven" and bo meaning either "dweller, inhabitant" or "home, nest". Peter Gunnarsson Rambo (1611-1698) was one of the first Swedish immigrants to the United States in the 17th century and considered to be the father of the settlement New Sweden in Pennsylvania... [more]

Ravninger Norwegian

Reinlund Norwegian (Rare)
The last name didn't show up until the early 1900s. Only a few people in Norway and Finnland have this last name

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".

Rogstad Norwegian
Norwegian Last Name

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 any of the many farmsteads named Rønning, ultimately derived from Old Norse ruðja "woodland clearing".

Rønningen Norwegian
Variant of Rønning.

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’.

Rosså Norwegian (Rare)

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

Rud Norwegian
Variant of Ruud.

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]

Ryen Norwegian
Habitational name from any of more than ten farmsteads, originally named with Old Norse rugr ‘rye’ + vin ‘meadow’.

Sæter Norwegian
Variant of Sæther.

Sæther Norwegian
Derived from Old Norse sætr "farm" or setr "seat, residence, mountain pastures".

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

Sand English, Scottish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, Jewish
From the vocabulary word sand. As a Swedish and Jewish name, often ornamental. Otherwise topographic.

Sandahl Swedish, Norwegian (Rare)
Combination of Swedish and Norwegian sand "sand" and dal "valley".

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
Combination of Norwegian sand "sand" and vik "bay, inlet".

Sax English, Norwegian
English from an Old Norse personal name, Saxi meaning ‘sword’.

Schau Norwegian
Variant of Skau.

Seeberg Norwegian

Seehuus Norwegian
Norwegian for "house by the sea."

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

Selvig Norwegian (Rare), Popular Culture
Variant of Selvik. Erik Selvig is a fictional character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He appears in several MCU movies between 2011 and 2022 where he is portrayed by Stellan Skarsgård... [more]

Selvik Norwegian
From any of the farms in Norway named with Old Norse selja "willow" or selr "seal" combined with vík "bay, inlet".

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.

Severson Norwegian (Americanized)
Alternate spelling of Syverson, son of Syver

Simensen Norwegian
Means "son of Simen".

Sisselsson Icelandic, Norwegian
Matronymic surname meaning Son of Sissel or Sheila.

Sivertsen Norwegian, Danish, Dutch (Rare)
Means "son of Sivert".... [more]

Sjøberg Norwegian
Norwegian form of Sjöberg.

Sjølseng Norwegian
Means silver meadow

Skarstad Norwegian
From a farm named Skarstad

Skarsvåg Norwegian

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.

Skogheim Norwegian
Combination of Swedish and Norwegian skog "forest" and German heim ''home''.

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

Smed Danish, Swedish, Norwegian (Rare)
Scandinavian cognate of Smith.

Smeplass Norwegian

Solbakken Norwegian
From Norwegian meaning "sun hill".

Sorbo Italian, Norwegian
the surname of Kevin Sorbo (from Hercules, from God's Not Dead movie or two) comes from the word for the "sorb apple" the fruit of the true service tree Sorbus domestica, or from the location-name made up of saurr "mire mud" + bœ´r ‘farm settlement’.

Sørensdatter Danish, Norwegian
Strictly feminine patronymic of Søren.

Sorlie Norwegian
Habitational name from a common farm name, Sørli, composed of the elements sør ‘south’ + li ‘slope’, ‘hillside’.

Sørloth Norwegian

Stavig Norwegian
Combination of Old Norse stafr "pole" and vik "bay". This was the name of a farmstead in Norway.

Stenseth Norwegian
habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, notably in eastern Norway, named Steinset, from either the noun stein ‘stone’ or the same word as a personal name + set ‘farmstead’.... [more]

Stensrud Norwegian

Stevik Norwegian

Stokholm Danish, Norwegian (Rare)
Combination of Norwegian skyta "to shoot" (indicating a protruding piece of land like a cape or headland) and holme "islet".

Stoltenberg German, Norwegian
Habitational name from places so called in Pomerania and Rhineland. A famous bearer is Jens Stoltenberg (b. 1959), Prime Minister of Norway 2000-2001 and 2005-2013.

Storbakken Norwegian
From Norwegian meaning "big hill".

Stormo Norwegian
Habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, notably in northern Norway, so named from stor meaning "big" + mo meaning "moor", "heath".

Strom Norwegian (Anglicized), Danish (Anglicized), Swedish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Danish and Norwegian Strøm and Swedish Ström, all meaning "stream, current".

Stuen Norwegian
Means Living Room or cabin in Norwegian.

Svartrud Norwegian

Svartvik Norwegian, Swedish

Svenningsen Danish, Norwegian
Means "son of Svenning".

Sydtangen Norwegian

Syversen Norwegian
Patronymic form derived from the given name Syvert, a rare variant of Sivert... [more]

Takvam Norwegian
Literally: "Thanks For"

Tangen Norwegian
Tangen is a village in south-east Norway.

Teigen Norwegian

Terjesen Norwegian
Means "son of Terje 1".

Theisen German, Danish, Norwegian
German, Danish, and Norwegian: patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Matthias or Mathies (see Matthew).

Thomasen Danish, Norwegian
Means "Son of Thomas".

Thorkildsen Norwegian, Danish (Rare)
Means "son of Thorkild".

Thorson Norwegian (Americanized), Swedish (Americanized)
Americanized form of Swedish Thorsson or Norwegian Thorsen.

Throndsen Norwegian (Rare)
Variant of Trondsen, meaning "son of Trond".

Tofte Norwegian
Named after the village of Tofte in the Halstoy district of Norway. The town of Tofte, Minnesota, United States, was founded by Norwegian immigrants with the surname.

Tollefsen Norwegian
From a patronymic from Tollef, a variant of Torleiv, from Old Norse þorleifr (see Torleif).

Tollefson Norwegian
Variant of Tollefsen.

Tonje Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Greek, Russian, Polish, Czech, Icelandic, Slovak, Croatian, Nepali, Estonian
From given name Tonje

Tonnesen Norwegian
Means "son of Tonnes", Tonnes or Tønne(s) being a Norwegian short form of Antonius.

Torgrimsdatter Norwegian

Torkildsen Norwegian
Variant of Thorkildsen

Tormoen Norwegian

Torp Norwegian, Swedish, Danish
Scandinavian form of Thorpe.

Torsen Norwegian (Rare)
Means "son of Tor".

Torseth Norwegian (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Tørseth.

Torsrud Norwegian

Troftgruben Norwegian
This last name is common in North Dakota.

Trondsen Norwegian
Means "son of Trond".

Truelsen Danish, Norwegian (Rare)
Means "son of Truels" in Danish.

Ulrichsen Norwegian
Means son of Ulrich

Ulvestad Norwegian (Rare)
Habitational name from any of five farmsteads, most in western Norway, named from Old Norse ulfr meaning ‘wolf’ + staðir, plural of staðr meaning ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’.

Underberg Norwegian
Habitational name from a place named with Old Norse undir meaning "under" and berg meaning "mountain, hill".

Urseth Norwegian (Rare, ?), English (?)

Utne Norwegian
In Norwegian, probably has some pre-Germanic elements (i.e. before approx. 200 CE). Other place-names in the area also has an element of pre-Germanic and unknown origins. It has been suggested that it derives from "Út-tún", meaning the hamlet or farmstead that is "out"

Vaage Norwegian
Variant of Waage.

Værnes Norwegian
Værnes is a village in the municipality of Stjørdal in Nord-Trøndelag county in Mid-Norway. The original spelling of the village's name was Vannes and it is a combination of var "calm, quiet" and nes "headland"... [more]

Våge Norwegian
Habitational name from any of several farms named Våge, derived from Old Norse vágr "bay, inlet, fjord".

Vannebo Norwegian
Taken from the farm Vanebu, spelled Vannebo in pre-1950 records. From the Norwegian words vann, meaning water, and bo, meaning to live or reside.

Vargeid Norwegian
Invented by Sverre Kristian (then) Olsen and his brother Willy Anfinn (also then) Olsen. They thought Olsen was boring, and invented the new Vargeid.

Vea Norwegian
Habitational name from any of four farmsteads so named, from the plural of Old Norse viðr meaning "wood", "tree".

Vee Norwegian
Habitational name from farmsteads named Ve, for example in Hordaland and Sogn, from Old Norse vé "sacred place".

Velten Norwegian
Norwegian habitational name from any of several farmsteads, mainly in Hedmark, named with velte ‘log pile’.

Vig Danish, Norwegian (Rare), Swedish (Rare)
Variant of Vik.

Vikan Norwegian

Vilhelmsen Danish, Norwegian (Rare)
Means "son of Vilhelm".

Waage Norwegian
Variant of Våge.

Wagle Norwegian
A habitational name derived from farmsteads in Rogaland named Vagle, from the Old Norse vagl meaning a '‘perch’' or '‘roost'’, referring to a high ridge between two lakes.

Wahlberg German, Swedish, Norwegian (Rare)
Composed of German wal "field, meadow" or Swedish vall "grassy bank" and berg "mountain, hill".

Waler Norwegian

Wallem Norwegian

Wannebo Norwegian
An alternative spelling of the Norwegian surname Vannebo.

Watle Norwegian

Watterud Norwegian

Weidemann Medieval German, German (Austrian), Norwegian
Weidemann is a German family name and comes from the Middle High German terms for hunter or woad farmer.... [more]

Wiig Norwegian
Variant of Vik.

Wilhelmsen Norwegian, Danish
Means "son of Wilhelm".

Winger Norwegian

Womholt Norwegian

Wroldsen Norwegian
Means "son of Wrold" in Norwegian.

Ylvisåker Norwegian (Rare)
Meaning unknown. Famous bearers of this name are the Norwegian comedy duo "Ylvis" consisting of brothers Vegard (b. 1979) and Bård Ylvisåker (b. 1982).

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