The Last Surname
Last Name Meaning and History
- English (East Anglia): metonymic occupational name for a cobbler, or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a maker of cobblers’ lasts (see Laster).
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a porter, from Middle High German last; German Last or Yiddish last ‘burden’, ‘load’.
- Dutch: metonymic occupational name as in 2, from Middle Dutch last ‘load’, ‘burden’; or a nickname for an awkward character, from Dutch last ‘trouble’, ‘nuisance’.
- French: habitational name from a place so named in Puy-de-Dôme.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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