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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

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