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The lachney Surname

lachney Name Meaning and History

Americanized spelling of the Swiss and Austrian family name Lachnicht, apparently a nickname for a miserable person, meaning ‘does not laugh’. In the U.S., this is a southern name, found almost exclusively in LA.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of lachney Families in the US in 1920
Number of lachney families
 10-17
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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