Frequency: (281)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German (Lantermann): 1. from a Germanic personal name Lanthar (from land ‘land’ + hari ‘army’) + man ‘man’. 2. habitational name from a farm name near Elberfeld, in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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