First name origin & meaning: Scottish: Amid the elms; from the field of elm trees First name variations: Lenox, Lenix, Lennie, Lenny, Len Last name origin & meaning: Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from the district
near Dumbarton, recorded in 1174 in the form Leuenaichs and in
the following year as Levenax. Apparently it is named from
Gaelic leamhan ‘elm’ + the locative suffix -ach +
English -s. Famous people with this last name:
Annie Lennox This name appears in the following lists:
Alliterative Names,
Flowers and Trees,
Names from Shakespeare,
Rock Kings and Queens
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