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The lauer Surname

lauer Name Meaning and History

  1. German, Alsatian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from Middle High German lure, German Lauer ‘crafty or cunning person’, ‘cheat’ (apparently originally ‘one with narrowed eyes’).
  2. German: occupational name for a tanner, Middle High German lower, from lo ‘tannin’, which is extracted from the bark of trees.
  3. South German: habitational name from Lauer in Franconia, named from the stream on which it stands.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of lauer Families in the US in 1920
Number of lauer families
 111-219
 38-110		 1-37
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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