Last Name LEMAN

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Meaning	The son of Leman, a corruption of Liefman. No doubt in some instances employed as a nickname, meaning dear one, sweetheart. Similar to Leifchild. Like it is used in Towneley Mystries: 'And hail that madyn, my lemman.' But its use in directories compels us to place it mainly in the category of fontal names. It was a familiar joke long time ago to say that there were two Lemons in the House of Commons and only one Peel.

Origin	English, Jewish, Dutch, Irish, Austrian, Belgian, Hungarian, Indonesian

Rank	19,263 (2000 US census)	46,596 (1990 US census)

Count	1,302 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

91.71%, or 1194 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
1.31%, or 17 total occurrences, as black,
1.61%, or 21 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1%, or 13 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
2.38%, or 31 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
2%, or 26 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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