Last name: LEAN
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LEAN : This last name is indexed 150,864 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
LEAN : 1: English (mainly Devon): nickname for a thin or lean person from Middle English lene ‘lean’ (Old English hlǣne).2: Shortened form of Scottish McLean.3: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 林 see Lin 1.
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