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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German and Swiss : nickname for someone with a large, drooping lower lip, or a slouching gait, cognate with the Swabian dialect word lätsch ‘flabby’, ‘drooping’, ‘slouching’.
  • German : habitational name from any of the places mentioned at Letcher 3.

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