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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German variant of Laas 2.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : unexplained.
  • English : nickname from Middle English lesse, lasse ‘smaller’ (from Old English lǣssa ‘less’), perhaps also used in the sense ‘younger’.

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