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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name, perhaps from Leadenham in Lincolnshire, which is probably so named from an Old English personal name, Lēoda + hām ‘homestead’.
  • Scottish : unexplained. Compare Ledingham.
  • Perhaps a variant of Dutch Van Landingham.

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