Lenz Family History
Lenz Name Meaning
German: from a personal name, in which two originally distinct
names have fallen together: a pet form of the personal name
Lorenz, and the Germanic personal name Lanzo, which was
originally a short form of any of several compound names with
land ‘land’ as the first element, e.g. Lambrecht (see
Lambert).German: nickname from Middle High German lenz
e ‘spring’ from lang ‘long’, since in this season the days
grow longer. The name may also have been bestowed on someone who was
born in the spring or who owed rent or service at that time of year,
or it may have denoted someone who was of a sunny and spring-like
disposition.German: habitational name from any of several places
named Lenz.Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Lenz
‘spring’ (see 2), one of the class of ornamental names adopted from
words denoting the seasons. Compare Summer, Winter,
Herbst, Fruhling.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lenz
Name Distribution of Lenz Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lenz families
 8 - 14  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lenz families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Lenz Family Origin
Lenz Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Lenz Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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