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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a person of a cheerful disposition, from Middle High German lustig ‘merry’, ‘carefree’, Middle Dutch lustighe, German lustig. As a Jewish name it is mainly ornamental.

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