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lien Name Meaning and History

  1. Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named with the definite singular form of Li 4.
  2. Dutch: from the Middle Dutch personal name Liedin, a pet form of any of the various Germanic compound names beginning with leud, liut ‘people’, ‘tribe’, such as Liedwin.
  3. New England variant spelling of Lyon.
  4. Chinese : variant of Lian 2.
  5. Chinese : variant of Lian 2.
  6. Vietnamese: unexplained.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of lien Families in the US in 1920
Number of lien families
 76-149
 26-75
 1-25
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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