About the Lands Surname

Arms linked to Land and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

What Lands means

Search old registers for Lands and you will soon meet Land too. The name is generally explained as “Dweller by a glade”.

The extra ending in Lands is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Land's family. Other spellings include Landis, Landise and Laund. In the 2010 US Census, 1,509 Americans gave Lands as their last name (rank 18,354). That puts it among the top 25,000 US surnames. Lands sounds close to Landes and Landys, so it can help to search both.

Research your Lands family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.