Englander Family History
Englander Name Meaning
German (Engländer): ethnic name from Engländer ‘Englishman’. Swedish: ornamental or topographic name either from äng ‘meadow’ + -lander a hybrid suffix from land ‘land’ and -ander (from Greek anēr genitive andros ‘man’) or from äng(e)l ‘angel’ + the suffix -ander. Jewish (Ashkenazic; Engländer): artificial name distributed at random by Austrian clerks (see 1 above).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022