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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German, Dutch, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a tall man, from an inflected form of Lang. According to Gottschald, in the Franconian dialect of German this was also a term for an unskilled laborer (more fully, Handlanger).

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