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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname from Middle High German glander ‘shine’, ‘radiance’.
  • German : habitational name for someone from Glann, near Salzburg, named from Glander, a South German term for an enclosure or fence constructed of palings.

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