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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Danish : habitational name from any of several places named Lemming, named with lem, either ‘lamb’ or ‘limb’, ‘twig’ + the suffix -ing denoting a place, i.e. ‘the place with the lambs or twigs’.

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