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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from Sorbian delan ‘dweller in a depression’.
  • Probably an altered spelling of French Delande, a regional name for someone ‘from Lande’ (see Lande), or DesLandes, recorded as a secondary surname of Champigny.

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