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lan Name Meaning and History

  1. Chinese : from a place named Lan-tian (meaning ‘blue field’) in Guangdong province.
  2. Polish (Lan): perhaps from the vocabulary word lan ‘plowland’, ‘soil’.
  3. Polish (Lan): alternatively, perhaps a nickname from a derivative of lania ‘hind’, ‘doe’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The lan name in History

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Distribution of lan Families in the US in 1920
Number of lan families
 79-155
 27-78		 1-26
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Lancy Family raybear1_1 2
Henry Lan, born April 1845, lived in Scott Co., PA, wife Margaretha margerice1 0
LAN 1891 census g55booker 0
MY BROTHER TRACY WILEY 0
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