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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Eastern German : habitational name from any of several places in eastern Germany, for example Lietzen, Lietzau, Lietzow, etc., all of Slavic origin.
  • Dutch : patronymic from a short form of a Germanic compound name beginning with Lied-.

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