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The lantz Surname

lantz Name Meaning and History

  1. South German: from the Germanic personal name Lanzo, originally a short form of various compound names with the first element land ‘land’, ‘territory’, but later used as an independent name.
  2. German: habitational name from any of several places called Lanz.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of lantz Families in the US in 1920
Number of lantz families
 124-246
 42-123
 1-41
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