Altland
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Frequency: (319)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name composed of German alt ‘old’ + Land ‘land’, perhaps adopted with reference to the Jewish homeland before the diaspora.
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