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Etymology of Lancelle

What does the name Lancelle mean?

The noble surname Lancelle originated in the region of Maine, in France. Lancelle is a topographic surname, which is a type of hereditary surname. Topographic names were given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. Habitation names form the other broad category of surnames that were derived from place-names. They were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. Other local names are derived from the names of houses, manors, estates, regions, and entire counties. As a general rule, the greater the distance between individuals and their homelands, the larger the territory they were named after. For example, people who only moved to another parish would be known by the name of their original villages, while people who migrated to a different country were often known by the name of a region or country from which they came.

Early Origins of the Lancelle family

The surname Lancelle was first found in Maine.

Early History of the Lancelle family

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Lancelle Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Lanciault, Lance, Lalance, Lancelle, Lancel, Lancelin, Lanciaux, Lancette and many more.

Early Notables of the Lancelle family

a Lancelin, born in Laval in the eighteenth century, who was a poet. Adolphe-Etienne Lance, born in Littry (Calvados) in 1813, was an architect. He worked with Mr. Visconti and in 1847 founded 'le Monteur des Architectes' and contributed numerous articles on the arts and archaeology to the magazine 'Siècle'. In 1850 he became...
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Lancelle Ranking

France, the name Lancelle is the 8,427th most popular surname with an estimated 500 - 1,000 people with that name. 1

Migration of the Lancelle family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: 20 individuals who arrived onto Canadian shores from France between 1600 and 1900. Most arrived during the nineteenth century, but some immigrated earlier, such as James Lancette, who lived in Ontario in the eighteenth century. Nicolas Lanciaux worked in Saint-Charles-Richelieu, Quebec, in 1760.


Contemporary Notables of the name Lancelle (post 1700) +

  • René Lancelle, French paymaster for a department, who lives in Montpelier, France


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