Lander Family History
Lander Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name from Middle
High German lant, German Land ‘land’, ‘territory’ (see
Land 1), used originally to denote either someone who was a
native of the area in which he lived, in contrast to a newcomer (see
Neumann), or someone who lived in the countryside as opposed to
a town.Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from either of two
places called Landau (see Landau), Lande in Yiddish.Dutch: from a Germanic personal name formed with land
‘land’ + hardu ‘strong’.English: variant of
Lavender.Americanized form (translation) of French
Terrien, found in New England.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lander
Name Distribution of Lander Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lander families
 111 - 219  38 - 110 |
 1 - 37  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Lander families
|
167 - 332 56 - 166 |
1 - 55 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lander families
|
68 - 134 23 - 67 |
1 - 22 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Lander Family Origin
Lander Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Lander
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Lander Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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