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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Norfolk) : of uncertain origin; perhaps a nickname for a jolly, laughing person, from the vocabulary word laughter.
  • Possibly also an Americanized form of Dutch Lachter, an unflattering nickname from Middle Low German lachter ‘shame’, ‘disgrace’. This is a common name in NC.

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