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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German or Dutch : vernacular derivative of the personal name Apollonius (see Lohnes).
  • South German : variant of Lunz or Luntz, a nickname for a careless drifter, from Middle High German lunzen ‘to doze’.

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