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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Latimer, or possibly of Latter 2.
  • German : occupational name for someone who prepared or used laths or slats, from Middle High German latte ‘slat’, ‘lath’ + -n (plural suffix) + the agent suffix -er.

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