Lehn
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: from Lehen and related Rufname forms with LEO; also as a place-name element
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/ˈɫɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lehn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 230K
- NONorway1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Lehen and related Rufname forms with LEO; also as a place-name element
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Lehn is read
(measured from records)Lehn is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English61%
Jean-Marie, French chemist (Nobel
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German16%
from Lehen and related Rufname forms with LEO; also as a place-name element
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
status name for a feudal tenant or vassal, from Middle High German lehen ‘to hold land as a feudal tenant’ (see Lehmann).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- French5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lehn in French.
- Portuguese5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lehn in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lehn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Lehn | 93 |
| US United States | — | 1,448 | 1 in 230K | 1.4K | Lehn | 243 |
| BR Brazil | — | 560 | 1 in 378K | 560 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 498 | 1 in 11K | 498 | Lehn | 12 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 216K | — | Lehn | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 99 | 1 in 59K | 99 | — | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Lehn | 1 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Lehn | 3 |
| BB Barbados | #698 | — | — | — | Lehn | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Lehn is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In hrx, loan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Abraham Lehnb. 1701DKDanish landowner
- Georg Lehnb. 1915DE1915-1996 German actor
- Erwin Lehnb. 1919DEGerman jazz composer, bandleader and musician (1919–2010)
- Jean-Marie Lehnb. 1939FRFrench chemist
- Jürgen Lehnb. 1941DEGerman mathematician
- Waltraud Lehnb. 1947DEGerman politician
- Norbert Lehnb. 1955DEGerman microbiologist (1955–2008)
- Thomas Lehnb. 1958DEGerman musician
- Unni Lehnb. 1977NONorwegian footballer
- Bob LehnFRFrench male curler
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lehn mean, and where does it come from?
- from Lehen and related Rufname forms with LEO; also as a place-name element Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Lehn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɛn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lehn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Lehn in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lehn.
- Where is Lehn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lehn is densest in Norway — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lehn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,448 people named Lehn in 2010, about 1 in 230 thousand residents.
- How common is Lehn compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Lehn is the 698th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lehn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lehnThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lehn” — the 698th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.