Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German (Engländer) : ethnic name from German Engländer ‘Englishman’. See also English. In some cases the Jewish name may be an ornamental adoption.
- Swedish : ornamental name either from äng ‘meadow’ + land ‘land’ + the suffix -er denoting origin, or from äng(e)l ‘angel’ + -ander, suffix derived from Greek anēr, andros ‘man’.