Handlos Family History
Handlos Name Meaning
German:: from handlos literally ‘handless’ hence presumably a nickname for someone who had lost one or both of his hands. status name for a feudal tenant who paid the so-called hant-loese ‘hand fee’ for a non-inheritable fief given to him for life; from Middle High German hant ‘hand’ + lœse ‘redemption in cash’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022