Show ContentsOlafsen History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Olafsen Family Crest Download (JPG) Heritage Series - 600 DPI

Family Crest Download (JPG) Heritage Series - 600 DPI

Etymology of Olafsen

What does the name Olafsen mean?

The origin of the distinguished Olafsen family can be traced to the historic Scandinavian country of Sweden. The surname Olafsen is derived from the Scandianavian personal name Oleifr, which also took the forms Olaf, Olof, and Olav. This name is composed of the elements ans, which means god, and leifr, which means relic. The suffix -sson and its variants are translatable as son of.

Olafsen migration to the United States +



Olafsen Settlers in United States in the 20th Century
  • Oscar Martin Olafsen, who arrived in Alabama in 1919 1
  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)

Houseofnames.com on Facebook