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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from any of several places named Lesse, for example in Lower Saxony.
  • German : variant of Leser.
  • Dutch : occupational name for a fireman, from an agent derivative of Middle Dutch lesschen, lessen ‘to extinguish’.

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