Family name origins & meanings
- New England form of French LePin, LesPins, from pin, ‘pine tree’, with the article le, plural les. This name illustrates the characteristic North American tendency to Americanize the spelling of French names and use the feminine definite article as a generic, i.e. la famille Pin.
- Slovenian : nickname from lapati ‘to babble’, from Slovenian dialect lap ‘throat’.