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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from Lugau in Saxony and Brandenburg (of Slavic origin, from a word meaning ‘swamp’), or from any of several places named with Middle High German luoc ‘hiding place’, ‘ambush’. Lueg is a common place name in the Tyrol, and the surname is particularly frequent in Bavaria and Austria.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : unexplained.

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