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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : from the personal name Liutger, derived from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements liut ‘people’ + gār, gēr ‘spear’.
  • North German (Lücker) : patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Lüdeke (see Luedecke).

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