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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and North German : nickname for someone thought to resemble a leopard, from Dutch lefert ‘leopard’.
  • Dutch, North German, and Frisian : short form from the Germanic personal name Liubhart, composed of liob ‘dear’ + hart ‘strong’.

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