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The surname Lehn

A surname, carried by 1,448 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex L500

Lehn: #18,877 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lehn #18,877, 1,448 people Lehn: #18,877 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lehn #18,877, 1,448 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lehn is more common than 88.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,448 people named Lehn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 213,222 Americans. That is up 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,440.

#18,877
rank among US surnames
1,448
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+0.6%
change since 2000 (was #17,911)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#18,877Serino1,448213,222
#18,883Getman1,447213,369

Who is named Lehn

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Lehn identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as two or more races and 1.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Two or more races 2.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.0%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lehn

Lehn has the Soundex code L500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L500.

Questions

How common is the surname Lehn?
1,448 people in the United States had the surname Lehn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 213,222 Americans. It ranked 18,877th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lehn?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Lehn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as two or more races.
Is the surname Lehn getting more or less common?
More common. 1,440 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,448 in 2010, up 0.6%.