First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Greek: occupational name from ancient and medieval Greek laskaris, a kind of soldier, from Persian laeshkaer ‘army’. This is the same word as Urdu lascar ‘sailor’ and Arabic el-askari ‘the army’, ‘the troops’.