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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : ethnic name for an Englishman, from French anglais ‘English(man)’, with the definite article l’. This name is sometimes Americanized as Langley.
  • There was a Langlais also called Laperaille, from Normandy, France, in Quebec in 1634.

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