The Lehn surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,448 people carried this name — #18,877 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 204,100 people counted. That is up 1% from 1,440 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 180 people named Lehn.
3 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 90 people named Lehn live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Santa Fe.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
40 people named Lehn live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
314 people named Lehn are counted in Norway and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Lehn,
with a public archive behind them.
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Abraham Lehn 1701–1757 · art collector -
Poul Abraham Lehn 1732–1804 · chamberlain -
Abraham Lehn 1643–1709 · merchant
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Paul Lehn 1913–
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Georg Lehn 1915–1996 · actor
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Erwin Lehn 1919–2010 · composer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lehn.
- Legris 174 · U.S. census
- Legros 1,648 · U.S. census
- Legue 221 · U.S. census
- Lehe 118 · U.S. census
- Lehman 32,180 · U.S. census
- Lehmann 8,799 · U.S. census
- Lehnen 658 · U.S. census
- Lehner 3,133 · U.S. census
- Lehnert 1,241 · U.S. census
- Lehoux 208 · U.S. census
- Lehr 6,537 · U.S. census
- Lehrer 1,743 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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