Len

Updated: June 9, 2019

Updated: June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

Native American : Flute
German : Courage
American : Like a lion
Scottish : Amid the elms; from the field of elm trees
German : Lion-hearted

Boy name variations

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Family name origins & meanings

Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a flax grower or merchant, from Polish len ‘flax’.
Polish (Leń) : nickname from Polish leń ‘lazybones’.
Polish : from a short form of the personal name Leon or Lenart (see Leonard).