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The Lanphear Name
Variations on the Name
Lanfear, Lanfier, Lanfire, Lanfere, Lamphire, Lanphier, Lamphier, Lanfiere, Langfield, Lamphere, Langfear, Lanfyre, Lanfeere, Langfere, Lanfer, Lanfeer, Lampher, Lanfeare, Landfield, Landfear, Lanfeir, Lamfear, Lanfair, Lampheir, Lamfier, Langfer, Lamphir, Lanfilde, Lanfeire, Lanifier, Landfer, Lamphear, Lampheare, Lamfire, Lamfer, Lamfeere, Langfire, Langfell, Landfere, Lanphere, Lanpher, Lanpheare, Langfielde, Lanfyer, Lanfield, Lanfeld, Lanfar, Landfire, Landfier, Landfar, Landfair, Lampyer, Lampier, Lamphyre, Lampfield, Lamper, Lamfeir, Lamfeare, Lansear, Lankfill, Langford, Langfild, Langfeld, Langfaire, Lanfior, Lanfild, Lanfiar, Lanfeur, Lanfaw, Lanfare, Lanefer.
Despite this significant variation in the form of the name in the past, the spelling has become pretty uniform is the last century or so with most people adopting Lanfear in the UK and forms with PH like Lanphear being more common in the USA.
Meaning of the Name
An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names with an Essay on their Derivation and Import, William Arthur, 1857.
LANPHEAR
Lann-feur, Gaelic, grass-land;
Lann-fear, a pike-man. Lann, an inclosure; a house; a church; land a sword. Feur, grass; fear, a man.
Patronymica Britannica - A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom, Mark Antony Lower,
1860.
LANFEAR
see LANPHEAR.
LANPHEAR
Gaelic lann-fear, a pike man.
Lower cites Arthur as the source of this etymology.
Homes of Family Names in Great
Britain, Henry Brougham Guppy, 1890.
Lanfear is a name that was represented by De Lanfar, or De Lanfare, in London in the reign of Edward I (Hundred Rolls),
Guppy classified the name as being peculiar to the county of Berkshire (that is confined mostly to that county) and estimated its frequency of occurrence to be 9 per 10,000 of the population.
Surnames of the United Kingdom, A Concise
Etymological Dictionary, Henry Harrison, 1918.
LANFEAR
(Celtic) Dweller at the Great Enclosure or Church [Cornish
lan (= Welshllan), an enclosure, church + fear, a mutated form of mear, mér, great].
(English) for Langfear q.v.
LANGFEAR
(English) the Domesday Langfere, Lancfer
Lanc- is for the Old English hlanc, lank and fer(e)apparently represents the Old English féra, companion, retainer].
New Dictionary of American Family
Names, Elsden C Smith, 1973.
LANDFAIR, LANFAIR, LANFAR
(Welsh, English) One who came from Llanfair (St Mary's church); dweller near the great church; the tall companion.
LANPHEAR, LANPHER, LANPHIER (Welsh) Dweller near the large church.
Other Ideas
Another suggested derivation for the name, more consonant with the theory of a Huguenot origin for the family, is from the French l'âme fière, meaning proud soul.
The name Lanfer exists in Germany. The German name is derived from Landwehr, which is the name of the local militia in the Middle Ages
Music I Listen To:
All time Fav: Killing Joke
Might as well list everything I have:
13th chime, 45 Grave, A Split Second, Absurd Minds, Accessory, actifed, Acumen Nation, Agalloch,
Aïboforcen, Alien Sex Fiend, altered states, Alternate Death, and also the trees, And Christ Wept, And One, angels in aspic, anorexic dread, antiworld, Aphex Twin, Assemblage 23, ausgang-a-go-go, Autechre, Ayria, Backlash, Banco de Gaia, Bauhaus, beast, Beborn Beton, bel canto, Belfegore, Bella Morte, Beta, Betty Blowtorch, Black 47, Black Halos, Black Ice, Blitz, Blitzkid, Bloody Dead n Sexy, Blue By Nature, Blur, Blutengel, bone orchard, Book Of Love, Boris Mikulic, brides, brigandage, Bronx Casket Co, C.o.t.a., Camerata Mediolanense, Cancer Barrack, Carcrash International, Catastrophe ballet, Caustic Soul, Cesium_137, Chaos UK, Children On Stun, Chris Connelly, Christian Death, cinema strange, Circle Jerks, Cirrus, Citizen Fish, Clair Obscur, Claire Voyant, clan of xymox, Cock Sparrer, Cocteau Twins, Coil, Collide, Colony 5, Combichrist, Concrete Blonde, Conflict, Consolidated, Converter, coptic rain, Corpus Delicti, Corvus Corax, Covenant, Cranes, Crass, Cruxshadows, C-Tec, Cubanate, cult of the psychic fetus, Curve, Cut.rate.box, D.I., damned, Danielle Dax, Das Ich, Davantage, Dead Can Dance, Dead Kennedys, Deadbolt, Deadboys, Death In June, Decree, Depeche Mode, Diary Of Dreams, diatribe, Die Form, Die Warzau, Din_Fiv, Diorama, dismantled, Disrupters, Distillers, Download, Drown, Drown For Resurrection, Echo Image, E-Craft, Einstürzende Neubauten, Electric Six, Electronic, ELpH vs Coil, Entwine, Epsilon Minus, Eva O, every new dead ghost ,Evils Toy, Fading Colours, Faith and the Muse, Fallen Apart, Fictional, Fields Of The Nephilim, Finalcut, Fixmer/McCarthy, Forma Tadre, frankenstein, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Funker Vogt, G.b.h., Garbage, Gary Numan, Gaye Bykers On Acid, Gitane Demone, God Module, Gossamer, Gotterdammerung, Gus Gus, hagar the womb, Hanzel Und Gretyl, Hate Dept., Hexedene, HIM, Hocico, hysteria,
