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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss German : from the short form of a Germanic personal name composed of the elements liut ‘people’, ‘tribe’ + berht ‘famous’.
  • topographic name for someone who lived at a Lauben, a row of houses and stores with an arcade in front, from Middle High German loube ‘arbor’, ‘bower’, ‘gallery’.

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