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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow, pasture, or patch of (fallow) arable land, Middle English leye.
  • Americanized spelling of German Lehmann.
  • German : variant of Lay 3.

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