English: from Middle English lamb, a nickname for a meek
and inoffensive person, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper
of lambs. See also Lamm.English: from a short form of the
personal name Lambert.Irish: reduced Anglicized
form of Gaelic Ó Luain (see Lane 3). MacLysaght
comments: ‘The form Lamb(e), which results from a more than
usually absurd pseudo-translation (uan ‘lamb’), is now much
more numerous than O’Loan itself.Possibly also a
translation of French agneau.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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