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Last Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Last Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Last families
 27 - 52  10 - 26 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Last families
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546 - 1,089 183 - 545 |
1 - 182 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Last families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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