Frequency: (4014)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow, pasture, or patch of (fallow) arable land, Middle English leye.
2. Americanized spelling of German Lehmann.
3. German: variant of Lay 3.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
