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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname for someone tall and thin, from Old English hlanc ‘long’, ‘narrow’.
  • North German : topographic name for some living at the side of a hill or river for example, from Middle Low German lanke ‘side’, ‘flank’.

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