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.