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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a day laborer or journeyman, Middle High German lōner.
  • German : habitational name for someone from places in the Austrian Tyrol named Lon and Lona, or Lohn in Westphalia, or Lohnau or Lohne.
  • German : status name for a feudal tenant or vassal, Middle High German lēhenære, lēner. See also Lehmann, Lehner.

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