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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Lässig) : topographic name for someone living in or near a wood, from Sorbian, Czech les, Polish las ‘woods’, ‘forest’, or habitational name from a place called Lässig, near Frankfurt-on-Oder, named with this word.
  • German (Lässig) : nickname meaning ‘tired’ or ‘lazy’, from Middle High German laz ‘slow’.

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