Frequency: (111)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Americanized form of German Lohmeister, occupational name for a master tanner, from Middle High German lō, lōh ‘tanner’ + meister ‘master’.
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