The sander Surname
sander Name Meaning and History
- English, Scottish, Dutch, German, and Swedish: from the personal name Sander, a reduced form of Alexander.
- German: topographic name for someone who lived on sandy soil, from Sand 1 + -er, suffix denoting an inhabitant.
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of seven farmsteads so named in southeastern Norway, from the indefinite plural form of Old Norse sandr ‘sand’, ‘sandy plain’, ‘beach’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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