Frequency: (651)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a tanner or leatherworker, from Middle High German and Yiddish leder, German Leder ‘leather’.
2. Hungarian (Ledér): nickname from the archaic Hungarian word ledér ‘frivolous’.
GIVEN NAMES: Jewish 4%. Emanuel (3), Miriam (3), Arie, Hershy, Mandel, Shalom.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
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