Last name origins & meanings:
- German and Danish: metonymic occupational name for a salmon
fisher or a seller of salmon, Middle High German lahs
‘salmon’.
- English (northeastern counties) and Danish: from an Old
Norse nickname, Lax, meaning ‘salmon’.
- Jewish
(Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Lachs ‘salmon’,
Yiddish laks, one of the many Ashkenazic surnames taken from
words denoting fish, birds, and animals.
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