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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (East Anglia) : variant of Lester.
  • English (East Anglia) : occupational name for a maker of cobblers’ lasts, from Middle English last, lest, the wooden form in the shape of a foot used for making or repairing shoes (Old English lǣste from lāst ‘footprint’).

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