When Brian Jon Strand was born in 1965, his father, Ronald Curtis Strand Sr, was 28 and his mother, Phyllis Juanita Boggs, was 25. He died in 1978, at the age of 13, and was buried in Ellendale, Dickey, North Dakota, United States.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Nels, Selmer, Johan, Lars, Aase, Berger, Bjorn, Iver, Knute, Ludvig, Morten.
North German, Danish, and Swedish: topographic name for someone who lived by the seashore, from Middle Low German, Danish, Swedish strand ‘shore’. The Swedish name is mainly ornamental.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of a hundred or so farmsteads so named, from strand ‘shore’.
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