Show ContentsWallander History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Wallander Family Crest Download (JPG) Heritage Series - 600 DPI

Family Crest Download (JPG) Heritage Series - 600 DPI

Etymology of Wallander

What does the name Wallander mean?

The Swedish surname Wallander is an ornamental name from the Swedish words "wall and vall", meaning "grassy bank, pasture or grazing ground", perhaps adopted in some cases as a topographic name by "someone who lived by a grassy bank".

Ornamental compound surnames include Wallberg (pasture hill), Wallgren (pasture branch), Wallstrom (pasture river) and Wahlquist (pasture twig).

Wallander Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Wahl, Wallen, Wallin, Wallenius, Wallner, Wallman, Wallander and many more.

Wallander migration to the United States +



Wallander Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Herman Wallander, aged 22, who arrived in New York in 1842 1
  1. 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)

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