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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place so named near Jülich in the lower Rhine.
  • German : (Löhn) probably a topographic name (river name) from the Hannover area, from a word denoting a small, swampy area of woodland (see Loh, Lau 2).

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