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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a clumsy person, from Middle High German lurz ‘left-handed’, ‘clumsy’.
  • German : (lürz) unflattering nickname from Lürze ‘cheat’, ‘swindler’.

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