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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Eastern German (of Slavic origin) : status name for the tenant of a fief, from Czech or Polish len(n)ik, from Middle High German lēhen ‘to hold land as a feudal tenant’ (see Lehn) + the Slavik agent suffix -ik.

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