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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : probably a metonymic occupational name for a linen weaver or someone who grew flax or sold linen, from Leinen ‘linen’, ‘flax’ (Middle High German līn), possibly shortened from Leinenweber, formed with weber ‘weaver’.

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