South German: from the Germanic personal name Lanzo,
originally a short form of various compound names with the first
element land ‘land’, ‘territory’, but later used as an
independent name.German: habitational name from any of several
places called Lanz.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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