as a Last Name
- 1,714
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Lein
Meaning & Origins
Dutch: 1. from a short form of the personal name Gelein, from French Ghi(s)lain, a Latinization of a Germanic personal name built on the element gīsil ‘pledge’ (see Giesel). 2. German: occupational name for a grower of or dealer in flax, from Middle High German līn ‘flax’. 3. Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads in Trøndelag, so named from Old Norse lein ‘slope’.
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,714
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Lein per capita
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