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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Russian and Belorussian : nickname from Russian and Belorussian laska ‘favor’; ‘weasel’ + the eastern Slavic possessive suffix -in.
  • Jewish (from Belarus) : either of the same origin as 1, or fromthe personal name Laske, a pet form of the Biblical name Elazar (see Lazar).

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