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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish : shortened form of some Ashkenazic surname such as Littman or Litwin.
  • English : variant of Light ‘little’.
  • Dutch and North German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with liut ‘people’, ‘tribe’ as the first element.

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