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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Asturian-Leonese : habitational name from a place called Llanas (or also Llanes) in Asturies (see Llanes).
  • Spanish : topographic name for someone who lived on a plain or plateau, Spanish llana ‘plain’, ‘flat ground’, from Latin planum (see Plain).
  • Catalan : variant spelling of Llanes.

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