American Family Name Origins:
Halseth
Frequency: (248)
(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 any of several farmsteads, notably in the Trøndelag region, named Halseth, from a combination of either Old Norse hallr ‘slope’ or the personal name Halli + set ‘farm’.
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