Norwegian: habitational name from any of twenty-five or more
farmsteads, notably in Agder, Rogaland, and Hordaland, so named from
stein ‘stone’ (or the same word as a personal name) +
land ‘land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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