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Lenin (S)>

Lenin (surname)

Variants:Lelikov (S) Lelkin (S) Lelyakin (S) Lelyakov (S) Lelyanov (S) Lelyashin (S) Lelyukhin (S) Lenkin (S) Lenkov (S) Lennikov (S) Lenov (S) Lenshin (S) Lentsov (S)
Derivative of:Alexander (S)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:

Russian short form of a number of patronymic variants of Alexander [q.v.]; e.g. Alenin and Olenin.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulanov chose the surname Lenin in honour of the uprising of political exiles on the River Lena in Siberia.