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Pages in category "Norwegian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 896 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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Norwegian surnames were originally patronymic and similar to the surnames used in modern Iceland, consisting of the father's name and one of the suffixes "-sen"/"-son" (son) or "-datter"/"-dotter" (daughter), depending on the person's gender. Unlike modern surnames (family names), they were specific to a person and were not transferred to a ...
Surnames of Norwegian origin (1 C, 55 P) S. Surnames of Swedish origin (2 C, 60 P) Pages in category "Surnames of Scandinavian origin"
The name of the clan was derived from its ancestor, often with the addition of an -ung or -ing ending. The original meaning of ætt/ätt seems to have simply been "those who are related". [1] A person could technically belong to several clans, but usually the identification of an individual came with ancestry of most prestige.
Pages in category "Norwegian masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 277 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .