as a Last Name
- 12,024
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Lance
Meaning & Origins
English: from the Germanic personal name Lanzo, originally a short form of various compound names with the first element land ‘land’, ‘territory’ (for example, Lambert), but later used as an independent name. It was introduced to England by the Normans, for whom it was a popular name among the ruling classes, perhaps partly because of association with Old French lance ‘lance’, ‘spear’ (see 2).
| 2,590th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 12,024
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Lance per capita
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