The langer Surname
langer Name Meaning and History
German, Dutch, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a tall
man, from an inflected form of Lang. According to Gottschald,
in the Franconian dialect of German this was also a term for an
unskilled laborer (more fully, Handlanger).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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