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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Hungarian : habitational name for someone from any of various places called Lahn in Hungary and Germany. In southern Germany and Austria, Lahn denotes a place where there had been an avalanche or landslide, from Middle High German laen, lēne ‘avalanche’.

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