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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Lütkemeyer) : distinguishing name either for a tenant farmer (see Meyer) whose name was Lüdeke (see Luedecke) or for one of diminutive stature (from Middle Low German luttik ‘small’, ‘little’).

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