Origin and popularity of the name LAUS
Origin
Laus : 1: German and Dutch: from a short form of the personal name Nikolaus see Nicholas.2: Walloon and Flemish: nickname from a Frenchified form of the Dutch adjective loos ‘cunning artful guileful’ (compare Loos) or a cognate of 1 above.3: Croatian and Serbian (Lauš): from the personal name Lauš an old variant of Lajoš a Slavicized form of Hungarian Lajos an equivalent of Louis.
Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
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