Frequency: (177)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Norwegian: probably an Americanized form of Nordeid, a habitational name from any of several farms, a compound of nord ‘north’ + eid ‘isthmus’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
