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lean Name Meaning and History

  1. English (chiefly Devon): nickname for a thin or lean person, from Middle English lene ‘lean’ (Old English hl?ne).
  2. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Liatháin (see Lehane).
  3. Reduced form of Scottish McLean.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of lean Families in the US in 1920
Number of lean families
 28-54
 10-27		 1-9
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 28 - Messages: 107
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Lean, Redruth, Cornwall CarlandMarlene 0
Lean & Snell Family Truro Cornwall ShirleyMcQuillan43 4
Francis William (or Frank ) LEAN Annie 4
TRYING TO TRACE ANDREW BROWN Esnode 0
Lean Family St. John NB M. Dufour 30
MyFamily.com now has Lean Family History Group online Glenda from Australia 8
One Family Tree for Cornish Leans? Glenda from Australia 9
Descendants of Margaret Lean John A. Smith 12
Sarah Lean Jim Spain 0
lean family in peterborough, Ont. area BonnieAPufall 0
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