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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : nickname for a short person, from Middle Dutch luttel, littel, lettel ‘small’.
  • German (Lettermann) : elaborated form of Lett 2.
  • German (Lettermann) : habitational name for someone from Letter, near Hannover.

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