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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name of Slavic origin, from Slavic laz ‘uncultivated land or clearing’, or a habitational name from a place so named in eastern Germany.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant of Laska.

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