Släkthistoria för Urness
Urness Vad efternamn betyder
Norwegian: old variant of Urnes (and in North America probably also an altered form of this) a habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named most of them from Old Norse urth ‘scree rock-strewn slope’ + nes ‘promontory headland’. In Sogn the farm name is Ornes denoting a farmstead on or near a jutting headland first element a preposition ór ‘out of’.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
