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Van Leer

Updated: April 26, 2025
Updated: April 26, 2025

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and Belgian : variant of Van Laar, a habitational name for someone from any of numerous places in Belgium and the Netherlands named Laar, from Middle Dutch lare ‘woodland clearing’.

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