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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (chiefly eastern) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of several places called Lauba, Lauban, Laube, or Lauben, all names of Slavic origin.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental from German Laube ‘summerhouse’, ‘arbor’.

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