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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a short form of the medieval female personal name Lettice (see Leece 1).
  • German : from Middle High German lette ‘clay’, ‘clayey soil’, hence a topographic name for someone who farmed on fertile clay soil.

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