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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German (Engländer) : ethnic name from German Engländer ‘Englishman’. See also English. In some cases the Jewish name may be an ornamental adoption.
  • Swedish : ornamental name either from äng ‘meadow’ + land ‘land’ + the suffix -er denoting origin, or from äng(e)l ‘angel’ + -ander, suffix derived from Greek anēr, andros ‘man’.

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