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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Slovenian (Lavrič) : patronymic from Lavre, an Old Slovenian short form of the Latin personal name Laurentius (see Lawrence).
  • German : from a short form of the personal name Laurentius (see Lawrence) or of a personal name composed of Old High German (h)lūt ‘clear’, ‘loud’ + rīhhi ‘powerful’, ‘rich’, ‘splendid’.

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