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laine Name Meaning and History

  1. Northern Irish: reduced form of Scottish McLean.
  2. English: perhaps a variant spelling of Lane.
  3. Finnish: ornamental name from laine ‘wave’. This is one of the most common names among those that were derived from words denoting natural features when hereditary surnames were adopted in Finland in the beginning of the 20th century. This name is found chiefly in southern Finland.
  4. French: metonymic occupational name for a worker or dealer in wool, from Old French la(i)ne ‘wool’ (Latin lana).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of laine Families in the US in 1920
Number of laine families
 41-79
 14-40		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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