Family name origins & meanings
- German (Bavaria, Austria) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : topographic name for someone who lived by a mountain spur or on a slope of a mountain, from Middle High German līte ‘mountain slope’, ‘spur’ + the suffix -(n)er, denoting an inhabitant.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Yiddish leytn ‘to solder’ + the agent suffix -ner (see Leitman).