Tracing the Leander Family Name

Leander began as an English family name. In Elsdon Smith's reading, the name described “descendant of Leander (lion man)”. It is a patronymic: it named a person after a father or forebear.

786 Americans were listed as Leander in the 2010 census. Leander sounds close to Landry, Landri and Linder, so it can help to search both.

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Leander family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them. Want more than a summary? See the Leander family name pack.