Lymen meaning | Last name Lymen origin

The is the variation of Layman. Not in distinction from a clerk or learned person, but a personal name. Layamon, translator of the 'Roman de Brut' into semi-Saxon, flourished about the end of the reign of Henry II.

Variant form of the Lyman. Lymne; Lympne or Lymne, county Kent, was also called in ancient records Limne and Limene, and, in the Itinerary of Antoninus, Lemanus. In 39 Hen.III. AD 1254, Robert of Limon was one of the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex. John Lyman, of Barking, county of Essex, who was made Freeman in 1633.

Surname Lymen is a variant of Lehmann. Of Liegeman, vassal, or tenant.

Surname is a variation of the Lymon. One who came from Lyham, i.e., homestead by a wood, in Northumberland; grandson of Laidghnean meaning "snow birth".

Lymen is the variant of Lyman. One who came from Lyham, i.e., homestead by a wood, in Northumberland; grandson of Laidghnean meaning "snow birth".

Lymen is form of Lehmann. One who held land on feudal tenure, a vassal or villein.

Lymen is variant form of Layman. An official declarer of the law; a lawyer.

Surname is variant form of the Limont. The lawman or lawyer.

The variation of Lemon. Dweller at, or near the Lemon meaning "elm," a river in Devonshire; the lover or sweetheart.

Lymen is the variant of Lemmon. See Lemon - Old English lemman, paramour, sweetheart-an Anglo-Saxon and Chaucerian word. One "Alan, the son of the Leman," occurs in the Hundred Rolls. Its primary meaning seems to be, a person much be loved , or very dear.
"And he seyde he would ben hir Limman or para And sche asked him zif that he were a Knyghte. — And he seyde Nay. And than sche said that he myghte not ben hir Lemman."
A tributary of the Exe, in Devonshire, is called the Leman. One family of this name, rather recently arrived from Germany, originally wrote themselves Lehman, which is doubtless a contraction of tehnmann, avassal or feudal tenant.