Landers
A surname found in several places, sometimes linked to a Norman French name and sometimes treated as an English/Flemish or Irish variant.
The #1,876 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 16,128 Americans shares it.
Etymology
The surname Landers has more than one possible origin. One historical source notes an old Norman name, "de Laundres" or "de Londres," appearing in Irish records in forms such as Landers and Glanders, which suggests a link to London or to a Norman-French place-name form. Other 19th-century surname books also mention Landers in passing among English surnames, but the evidence is not uniform enough to give one single certain derivation.
History
The name appears in British and Irish records in several variant spellings, and by the 19th century it was established in Ireland as well as Britain. Some Irish genealogical writers specifically connected it with an old Norman family form, while other references treat it as a surname that may have been reshaped locally over time. In the United States it is a relatively uncommon but well-established surname.
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Fun fact
A 1901 Irish genealogical source explicitly says that an old Norman name, de Laundres or de Londres, was found locally in the forms Landers and Glanders.
From the historical record
“BOUVERIE. Fr. an ox-stall. Lawrence des Bouveries, a native of Sainghien, near Lisle in l^'landers, fled to England on account of his religion, and settled at Can- terbury in 1.5G8. From him descends the Earl of Radnor. Courthope's Debrett. BOYEY. Two parishes in co. Devon.”
— Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom