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Laska Surname Meaning

Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) (also Łaska): from the Polish word łaska ‘grace favor’ or possibly from a homonym meaning ‘weasel’. As a Polish name this is a nickname; as a Jewish name it is generally artificial.

Polish: from laska ‘stick walking stick’ a nickname for a tall thin man. Czech and Slovak (Láska): nickname or status name based on láska ‘love’ denoting a person who took on some burden such as serfdom ‘out of love’ i.e. voluntarily.

Czech (Moravian; Laška): from a pet form of the personal name Ladislav (see Lada ). Hungarian: from laska ‘pastry’ probably a metathesized form of Slovak lokša or Ukrainian lóksa hence a metonymic occupational name for a pastry cook.

In Hungarian laska also denotes a type of mushroom and in some cases the surname may have arisen as a nickname from this sense.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

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Between 1955 and 2004, in the United States, Laska life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1960, and highest in 1980. The average life expectancy for Laska in 1955 was 52, and 71 in 2004.

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