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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a pleasant person, from Middle High German luste ‘pleasant’, ‘lovely’.
  • German : habitational name from any of several places so named in northern Germany.
  • Dutch : nickname for a bon viveur, from Middle Dutch lust ‘pleasure’, ‘desire’.

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