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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : regional name from Littau ‘Lithuania’ (see Litwak).
  • German (of Slavic origin) : habitational name from a place so named in Moravia, or related to a Slavic personal name such as Litomir or Litoslaw, the first element being from Old Slavic ljutu ‘furious’, ‘wild’.

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