In all the world, Läufer (Laufer 
, Läufer , Лауфер 
) is a very rare principally male, but scarcely female first name. The first name Läufer is characteristic of Eastern Asia, particularly China, where it is an extremely rare male name. Much more prevalently, Läufer is the last name as well as the forename.
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