Frequency: (120)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead so named in western Norway, from Old Norse eid ‘isthmus’ + nes ‘headland’, ‘promontory’.
GIVEN NAME Scandinavian 9%. Lars.
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