Frequency: (113)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Swedish, Finnish, and German: ethnic name for a Latvian.
2. Possibly a German nickname for a tall, thin man, from Middle High German late ‘slat’.
GIVEN NAME German 5%; Jewish 4%. Kurt.
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