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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Galician : habitational name from any of four places called Lence.
  • Variant of Polish Lenski.
  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of Hungarian Lencse, meaning ‘lentil’, or Lenke, from a pet form of Lénárt (see Leonard).

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