Lanes Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Behind the Lanes surname stands Lane, an English name that clerks and families wrote in more than one way. The name is generally explained as “Dweller by the lane”.

• Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.
• Lanes adds a patronymic ending to Lane, meaning ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’.
• Other spellings include Laine and Delane.

Arms associated with the name

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