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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : unexplained. In part, possibly a shortened form of Scottish and Irish McLann, also unexplained.
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name composed with land ‘land’ as the first element, for example Lannhardt, from Landohard.

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