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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Landacker) : altered form either of Landegger, a topographic name meaning ‘owner of fields of a certain territory’, or of Landecker, a habitational name from any of several places in Germany and Austria called Landeck (see Landeck). This name was prominent among Salzburg Protestants who settled in East Prussia.

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