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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of several places named Li(e)chtenstein, from Middle High German lieht ‘bright’ + stein ‘stone’, ‘rock’. All take their name from a castle which formed the original settlement.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name composed of German Licht ‘light’ + Stein ‘rock’, ‘stone’.

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