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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname from Anglo-Norman French l’eveske ‘the bishop’ (see Bishop).
  • English : from the Middle English personal name Lefeke, Old English Lēofeca, a derivative of Lēofa (see Leaf).
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from Yiddish Leyvik, a pet form of the personal name Leyvi, itself a pet form of the Biblical name Levi (see Levy).

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