 He hesitates about the personal name contained in this place-name, but believes that it is probably "Liutradus" instead of "Liuthari" supported by Marie-Thérèse Morlet, after Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing.The Anglo-Saxon history specialist Daniel Henry Haigh (1819—1879) noticed that the village could share a common etymology with the civil parish of Letheringham in Suffolk, England.and this theory of a Saxon or Anglo-Saxon origin is supported nowadays by linguists that analysed toponyms thought before to be Franconian as Saxon afterwards.