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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name, or perhaps an ornamental elaboration associated with the name Leyb; from Middle High German lēwe ‘lion’, translating the Yiddish male personal name Leyb (see Low 3) + German stein ‘stone’, ‘rock’. There may have been some confusion between the first element and the personal name Levi (see Levy).

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