Family name origins & meanings
- German : habitational name for someone from Lugau in Saxony and Brandenburg (of Slavic origin, from a word meaning ‘swamp’), or from any of several places named with Middle High German luoc ‘hiding place’, ‘ambush’. Lueg is a common place name in the Tyrol, and the surname is particularly frequent in Bavaria and Austria.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : unexplained.