Girl name origins & meanings
- Italian : Noble and eager
Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : from a dialect or old form of Lancia.
- Italian : from a short form of a personal name formed with the suffix -lanza or -lancia, as for example Francalanza and Giallanza.
- Spanish : from lanza ‘lance’, either a nickname for a soldier (lancer) or occupational name for a lance maker.