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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name for someone from Little Eland in Northumberland, or Elland in West Yorkshire, or Ealand in Lincolnshire, all of which derived their names from Old English ēaland ‘cultivated land by water or a river’.
  • Dutch : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements adel ‘noble’ + land ‘land’.

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