Last name: LIGHTFOOT
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LIGHTFOOT : This last name is indexed 64,818 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
LIGHTFOOT : English (mainly northern England especially Cheshire): nickname for a messenger or for a fast runner from Middle English lyght ‘light nimble quick’ (Old English līoht) + fote ‘foot’.
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