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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Lánský) and Slovak (Lánsky) : topographic name from a derivative of Old Czech lán ‘large field’ (see Lanik). It may also be a habitational name from any of several places called Lány, named with this element.
  • Jewish (from Belarus) : habitational name for someone from the village of Lan or Lanskaya, now in Belarus.

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