The eland Surname
eland Name Meaning and History
- English: habitational name for someone from Little Eland in Northumberland, or Elland in West Yorkshire, or Ealand in Lincolnshire, all of which derived their names from Old English ealand ‘cultivated land by water or a river’.
- Dutch: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements adel ‘noble’ + land ‘land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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