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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a tanner or leatherworker, from Middle High German and Yiddish leder, German Leder ‘leather’.
  • Hungarian (Ledér) : nickname from the archaic Hungarian word ledér ‘frivolous’.

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