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lane Name Meaning and History
- English: topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin ‘descendant of Laighean’, a byname meaning ‘spear’, or ‘javelin’.
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of Luan’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’.
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Liatháin (see Lehane).
- Southern French: variant of Laine.
- Possibly also a variant of Southern French Lande.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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