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Lent

Updated: April 26, 2025
Updated: April 26, 2025

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch (van Lent) : habitational name from Lent in Elst, Gelderland, meaning a place where lime trees grew; or from a lost place, Leent.
  • Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Lenth.

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