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Laufer

Feminine
Rare

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from a place called Lauf.
  • German (Läufer) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a messenger or a nickname for a fast runner, from an agent derivative of Middle High German loufen, German laufen ‘to run’.
  • English : variant of Laver.

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