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Lansing (name)

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Lansing is a Dutch patronymic surname from the personal name Lans (Germanic Lanzo).[1][2] The "-ing" or "-ink" suffix originally was patronymic, but later also became indicative of a place.[3] Lansing is now a rare name in the Netherlands (Lansink is the more common form),[4] but there are many descendants in the United States of Gerrit Gerritse Lansing (ca.1615–bef.1654), a baker in Hasselt, Overijssel, whose widow and children migrated to New Netherland in 1654. At a later time there the surname became used as a middle name and given name. Notable people with the name include:

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  1. ^ Lansing Name Meaning at ancestry.com, sourced to Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
  2. ^ Lans at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands
  3. ^ -ink at the Database of Surnames in the Netherlands
  4. ^ Lansing and Lansink at the Database of Surnames in the Netherlands