The laurel tree or sweet bay tree symbolic of honor and victory. Old name with many variants. Of Laurentum. From the place of the laurel leaves. Can also be interpreted as the English version of the Irish name Lorcan: Fierce. A diminutive of Laurence: from the place of the laurel leaves.
Lives near the place abounding in elm trees. A literary name from Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth, where it belongs to a nobleman of Scotland. Surname and clan name. Lennox; a Scottish nobleman; appears in Shakespeare's Macbeth.