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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from any of several places named Lehr (see Lehr).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a teacher, a synonym of Lehrer, from German lehren ‘to teach’ + Mann ‘man’.

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