Girl name origins & meanings
- Place name : Lansing, Michigan
Girl name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch : patronymic from the personal name Lans (Germanic Lanzo).
- English : habitational name from Lancing in West Sussex, so named from an Old English personal name Wlanc + -ingas ‘family or followers of’.
- This was the most frequent name in New Netherland in the 17th century. Among others, Gerrit Frederickse Lansing and his wife, Elizabeth Hendrix, came to America with their European-born children during the late 1640s. There is a waterway near Utica, NY called Lansingkill, named for a family with this surname.