Lehne
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Leine, a habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named (see Lein 3)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lehne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 940K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 11K
- FIFinland≈1 in 65K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
480 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Leine, a habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named (see Lein 3).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lehne 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.
480 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)
Lehne is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, arm (of a chair), armrest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pdc, to lend, to loan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Vācijā ("Loehne"), Ziemeļreinas-Vestfālenes federālajā zemē, 39500 iedzīvotāju (2013. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Adolf Lehneb. 1856DEGerman chemist (1856–1930)
- Hans Lehneb. 1914NONorwegian athletics competitor
- Carl Johan Lehneb. 1927NONorwegian politician
- Jörg Lehneb. 1936DEGerman mountaineer (1936-1969)
- Hans Fredrik Lehneb. 1947NONorwegian diplomat
- Andreas Lehneb. 1951ATAustrian art historian
- Fredric Lehneb. 1959USAmerican actor
- Kathy Lehneb. 1961USAmerican businessperson and poker player
- Olaf Lehneb. 1962DEGerman politician
- Terje LehneNONorwegian alpine skier
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)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Lehne mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Leine, a habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named (see Lein 3). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lehne?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɛn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lehne have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 480 people named Lehne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lehne.
- Where is Lehne most common?
- Lehne is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lehne?
- In Norway, the national register counted 480 people named Lehne, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lehneThe 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, “Lehne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.