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lemon Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from the Middle English personal name Lefman, Old English Leofman, composed of the elements leof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + mann ‘man’, ‘person’. This came to be used as a nickname for a lover or sweetheart, from Middle English lem(m)an. There is no connection with the word denoting the citrus fruit (which is of Persian origin).
  2. Scottish and northern Irish: variant of Lamont.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The lemon name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the lemon family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of lemon Families in the US in 1920
Number of lemon families
 84-166
 29-83		 1-28
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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