Zanders Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Many Zanders families will find their roots under Zander, the form most records use. Name scholars give the meaning as “A descendant of Zander”.

• Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms.
• The same family of names includes Zanters and Zanter.
• The extra ending in Zanders is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Zander's family.
• The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Zanders with 2,040 bearers, at rank 14,591. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Zander and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Zanders report, with a museum-style coat of arms.