Last Family History
- 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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 623,244 Historical Documents with Last on Ancestry
- 264,386 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 77,769 Census and Voter Lists
- 119,681 Military Records
- 16,704 Immigration Records
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Number of Last families
 546 - 1,089  183 - 545 |
 1 - 182  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Last families
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13 - 24 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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