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’.