| ![Show Contents]() Lars History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
- Origins Available:
Norway
Etymology of LarsWhat does the name Lars mean? The origin of the distinguished Lars family can be traced to the rugged Scandinavian country of Norway. The surname Lars is derived from the personal name Lars, which is a pet form of the name Lawrence. This name is in turn derived from the Latin name Laurentius, which literally means man from Laurentium, a town in Italy named for its laurels or bay trees. The popularity of this name in medieval Europe is due to the exploits of a saint who was martyred at Rome in the 3rd century. The suffix -sen and its variants are translatable as son of.
| Lars migration to the United States | + |
Lars Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- Joh Lars, aged 20, who landed in New York in 1862 1
| Contemporary Notables of the name Lars (post 1700) | + |
- Daniel Lars Hoch (b. 1979), Swedish former football player
- Ralph Lars Herseth (b. 1946), American politician, Member of South Dakota State House of Representatives 2nd District, 1975-86; Member of South Dakota State Senate 2nd District, 1989-96 2
- Lars Johan Christian "Lasse" Norres (1952-2025), Finnish music and entertainment industry producer, served as the manager of the popular band Dingo and as the informer of the record label Finnlevy
- Lars Orvar Martin Lindwall (1941-2025), Swedish épée fencer, won two team medals at the 1961 and 1962 Fencing World Championships, competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics and finished fifth with the Swedish team in 1960 and fourth in 1964
- Lars Westman (1938-2025), Swedish filmmaker and cartoonist, worked for ten years as a typographer, and has been involved in film-making for nearly 50 years, primarily for Scandinavian television
- Lars Boom (b. 1985), Dutch racing cyclist
- Lars Englund (1933-2025), Swedish sculptor and painter, active from 1953
- Lars Gunnar Lie (1938-2025), Norwegian politician, Minister of Transport and Communications (1989–1990)
- Lars Kristian Abrahamsen (1855-1921), Norwegian politician and magistrate
- Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
- The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 6) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
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