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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : presumably a topographic name from Liegelberg, name of a hill near Uelzen in Lower Saxony.
  • German : alternatively, perhaps, a nickname for a liar, from Middle High German liegen ‘to lie’, ‘fib’.

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