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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of any of several Germanic personal names composed with the first element liut ‘people’, ‘tribe’.
  • German : nickname for a disagreeable, cantankerous person, from Middle High German leidic ‘disagreeable’, ‘tiresome’.

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