German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for someone
who made candles or possibly for someone who tended a light, from an
agent derivative of from Middle High German lieht, Yiddish
likht ‘candle’, ‘light’.
Dutch: from Middle Dutch lichter
‘candlestick’, ‘chandelier’, hence probably a metonymic occupational
name for a maker of such items or perhaps for someone who tended a
light, from an agent derivative of lichten ‘to make light’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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