Norwegian: habitational name from any of thirty or more farmsteads,
notably in Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane, so named from Old Norse
Sólheimr, a compound of sól ‘sun’ + heimr
‘home’, ‘farmstead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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