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Surnames, their origin and their meaning

Many surnames are associated with the place/locality of where the family lived and in those cases the location is noted as the meaning.
Many surnames are associated with the occupation of the person given the name.

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Surname	Origin	Meaning
Lynch		A strip of greenwood between the plowed lands in the common field
Lackey		A person sent, an attendant servant.
Lake		A servant
Lamb		Lamb
Lancaster		A town and county of England
Lanham		Lavenham, a town in Suffolk, England
Lanman		lance-man
Lardner		swine-herd
Larkins		lark, a sweet, shrill, musical bird, and kin, a child
Larry		Lawrence
Latimer		interpreter
Laurel		laurel or bayberry-tree
Lawrence		Laurus, the laurel-tree
Lawrie		Lawrence
Lawson		son of Law
Leadbeater		worker in lead
Lee		A pasture, meadow, lands not plowed, a common, a sheltered place
Leech		physician
Legatt		Legate, an ambassador
Lent		Lent
Leonard		leon, a lion, and ard, Teutonic, nature, disposition
Leppard		leopard
Leslie		from Bartholomew de Leslyn
Leveret		A hare in the first year of its age
Lewknor		Levechenora, the denomination of one of the hundreds of Lincolnshire, England
Ley		A pasture, meadow, lands not plowed, a common, a sheltered place
Lightbody		Licht, a dead body, a tomb, and Bodee, contracted from Boadicea
Lightfoot		swiftness in running, or expertness in dancing
Lilly		A beautiful flower
Linnet		A singing bird
Littler		town, village, or hundred of Little Over
Long		tall and lanky
Lorimer		maker of bits or bridles
Loudoun		the parish of Loudoun in Ayrshire, Scotland
Loughlin		Welsh called the Baltic Sea Lychlyn
Lovel		a place in Normandy Lupus the Wolf
Lowe		hill
Lower		Burder
Lucas		Luke

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