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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech and German : metonymic occupational name for a weaver or seller of bedsheets, from Middle High German bett(e) ‘bed’ + Middle Dutch, Middle Low German laken ‘piece of woven material’, which transferred into Middle High German as lahhen, lachen (modern German Laken).

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