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lehn Name Meaning and History

German: status name for a feudal tenant or vassal, from Middle High German lehen ‘to hold land as a feudal tenant’ (see Lehmann).

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Distribution of lehn Families in the US in 1920
Number of lehn families
 22-42
 8-21
 1-7
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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