Landry surname meaning

Landry is chiefly French and Norman-English from the Old French personal name Landri, from Germanic Landric—“land” plus “powerful ruler.” That personal-name route accounts for many French and Acadian Landry families in North America. DAFN also records an English surname from Middle English lavendrie, “wash-house,” either for a laundry worker or someone living by one, and a French-Canadian shortening of a habitational name from La Glanderie. Laundry, Londeree, and Lundry are related American forms. Parent’s name is high confidence for the Landri lead that DAFN lists first and that matches the well-known French surname.