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Updated January 23, 2020

Family name origins & meanings

  • Chinese : variant of Liu 1.
  • French : from the personal names Liaud or Lioud (from the Germanic elements liut ‘people’ + waldan ‘to rule’) or Lioux (from liut ‘people’ + wulf ‘wolf’).

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