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Lanier

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Gender: M Meaning of Lanier: "wool worker" Origin of Lanier: French occupational name

The name Lanier is a boy's name of French origin meaning "wool worker". Lanier and is often added to lists like Occupational Baby Names and discussed in our forums with posts like "A Lot Can Happen In Sixty Years - Part 1".

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The fashionable occupational last name category gets some French flair with this, Tennessee Williams's middle name.

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Lanier W. Phillips, U.S Navy sailor and oceanographer
Algernod Lanier Washington aka Plies, American rapper
Jesse Lanier Cooper, son of actress Marianne Leone Cooper
Sidney Lanier, Poet

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A French surname pronounced 'Lan-yay'

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