Lane Family History
Lane Name Meaning
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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lane
Name Distribution of Lane Families
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England & Wales
Canada
Number of Lane families
 1,978 - 3,954  660 - 1,977 |
 1 - 659  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lane families
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245 - 487 82 - 244 |
1 - 81 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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Lane Family Origin
Lane Immigration Information (CA)
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Lane Family Occupations
from 1881 CA Census Data
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