Meaning and Origin of: Layland

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : One from the meadow farm

Boy name variations

Layton
Leighton
Lay
Leigh

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly Lancashire) : habitational name from Leyland in Lancashire (recorded in Domesday Book as Lailand), or from Laylands in Yorkshire; both are named from Old English lǣge ‘untilled ground’ + land ‘land’, ‘estate’. In some cases the name may be topographical.