German and Dutch: patronymic from a vernacular form of
Lucas.German: variant of Luchs.French:
habitational name from places so named in the Côte-d’Or,
Haute-Garonne, and Saône-et-Loire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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