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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : topographic name for someone who lived near a pond or lake, Middle High German lache + man ‘man’.
  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by the boundary of a parish or other administrative unit, from Middle High German lāche ‘boundary stone’.
  • German (of Slavic origin) : from Lach 1 or 3.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Lachman.

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