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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from Middle High German leise ‘rut’, or from an area name with this word.
  • nickname for a soft-spoken, quiet person, from an inflected form of Middle High German līse ‘quiet’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish personal name Leyzer, from the Biblical name Eliezer (Genesis 15: 2).

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