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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Lutz.
  • English : patronymic from Lutt, a medieval personal name which probably preserves an Old English byname Lutt(a), derived from l̄t ‘small’ (see Light 3).

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