Family name origins & meanings
- German : topographic name from Middle High German leise ‘rut’, or from an area name with this word.
- nickname for a soft-spoken, quiet person, from an inflected form of Middle High German līse ‘quiet’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish personal name Leyzer, from the Biblical name Eliezer (Genesis 15: 2).