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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Lander 1, from Middle High German, Middle Dutch lantsman, German Landsmann or Yiddish landsman ‘countryman’ or ‘fellow countryman’.

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