First name origin & meaning: Greek: Violet flower, modest First name variations: Yolande, Yolantha, Iolanthe, Iolande, Eolande, Jolanda, Jolaunda, Jo, Yo, Yolanda Last name origins & meanings:
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads in
southwestern Norway, so named from the plural of land (see
Land 1).
- Czech: from a short form of the personal name
Mikulanda, a derivative of Mikuláš, Czech form of
Greek Nikolaos (see Nicholas).
- Polish: nickname for a persistent and irritating person, from a derivative of
the dialect verb landzić ‘to ask insistently’, ‘badger
someone’.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant of
Landau.
- Spanish and Basque: topographic name from the
Basque landa ‘meadow’. There is a place of this name in
Álava province, Basque Country, and the surname may in fact be a
habitational name from this place.
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