This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'at the laund' or 'lund,' i.e. lawn, which is a modern form, an open space in a wood, a glade. 'Lawndeof a wode, saitus': Promptorium Parvulorum 'At the hartes in these hye laundes.'

A property in my late parish (Ulverston) has been from time immemorial called 'The Lund.' A high piece of greensward, it once overlooked the forest of Furness. The final 's' in Lowndes, &c, is probably the patronymic, as in Williams, Jennings, &c.; compare Knowles, Styles, Brooks, Holmes, &c.

Richard de la Lund, Norfolk, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Henry del Lund, Lincolnshire, ibid.

Robert de la Laund, Essex, ibid.

Thomas de Lound, Lincolnshire, ibid.

William de la Londe, Devon, ibid.

John de la Lound, Bedfordshire, 20 Edward I: Placita de Quo Warranto, temp. Edward I-III.

Alice du Lund, Close Rolls, 32 Edward I.

Beatrice atte Lound, Norfolk, temp. Edward III: History of Norfolk.

Johannes del Lound, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

Lund is the commonest form of entry in early rolls.

1625-6. Thomas Madlocke and Catherine Lownes: Marriage Lic. (London).

1628. Thomas Lowndes and Elizabeth Spenser: ibid.

(Low German) Loon; Lad [Middle English and Scot. town, loun: cp. Middle Dutch loen, a stupid fellow] Does haughty Gaul invasion threat? Then let the louns beware, sir !— Burns, ‘The Dumfries Volunteers,’ 1-2.

There has been some confusion with Lownd, Lound, q.v.

1. Launde, a liberty in co. Leicester, and Laund, two townships in co. Lancaster. 2. See Launde.

Lowland Scotch. The glossary to Burns says, "a fellow, a ragamuffin;" also a careless, half-grown lad. "The usual figure of a Skye boy is a lomn with bare legs and feet, a ragged coat and waistcoat, a bare head, and a stick in his hand." Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides.

Lund is a well-known bishop's see and university in Sweden. A family of this name settled in Yorkshire from Nuremburg in the XVI. century. See Lunn.