Girl name origins & meanings
- Middle English : Narrow road
Boy name origins & meanings
- Middle English : Narrow road
Family name origins & meanings
- English : topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.
- Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin ‘descendant of Laighean’, a byname meaning ‘spear’, or ‘javelin’.
- Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of Luan’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’.
- Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Liatháin (see Lehane).
- Southern French : variant of Laine.
- Possibly also a variant of Southern French Lande.
