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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for for a physician, from Middle High German lāzer ‘one who lets blood’.
  • German : occupational name for a hunter, from Middle High German lūzen ‘to lie in wait (for game)’.
  • Southern French : according to Morlet, an occupational name for a net maker, from a southern form of lacet ‘lace’.

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