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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Eastern German : habitational name of Slavic origin, from a town so named in Saxony, from Slavic laz ‘uncultivated land’, ‘clearing’.
  • North German (Hamburg) : possibly a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman, from Middle Low German las ‘salmon’ (see Lax 1).

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