occupational name for a physician, Old English
l?ce, from the medieval medical practice of ‘bleeding’,
often by applying leeches to the sick person.topographic name for
someone who lived by a boggy stream, from an Old English
læcc, or a habitational name from Eastleach or Northleach in
Gloucestershire, named with the same Old English element.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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