Släkthistoria för Leitner
Leitner Vad efternamn betyder
German (Bavaria Austria) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived by a mountain spur or on a slope of a mountain from Middle High German līte ‘mountain slope spur’ + the suffix -(n)er denoting an inhabitant. Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Yiddish leytn ‘to solder’ + the agent suffix -ner (see Leitman).
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
