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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : probably from the old Germanic personal name Lanzo or from a derivative of the occupational name lancere ‘lance maker’, ‘lancer’.
  • Spanish : nickname from lanzo ‘a throw’, a derivative of the verb lanzar ‘to throw’.

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