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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Durham) : unexplained.
  • Perhaps an Americanized form of German Lichtel, a habitational name from a place named Lichtel, recorded in 1224 as Lihental. This name occurs chiefly in LA.

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