Fodness Family History
Fodness Name Meaning
Norwegian: old variant of Fodnes (and in North America probably also an altered form of this) a habitational name from either of two farmsteads so named from Old Norse Fornesjar from for ‘front foremost’ + nesjar plural of nes ‘headland’ denoting a protruding headland.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022