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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Greek : Cheer
  • Greek : Sea gull

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Scandinavian : Crowned with laurel

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (from Basque) : from Basque Lariz ‘oak’, topographic name for someone who lived by an oak wood or habitational name from Lariz in Bilbao province.
  • Polish : Americanized form of Larysz (see Larish).

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