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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Ukrainian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : topographic name for someone who lived by a lime tree, from lipa ‘lime tree’. As a Jewish name, it is also of ornamental origin.
  • Jewish (from Poland) : habitational name for someone from the village of Lipa, in Poland, named with lipa ‘lime tree’.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from a personal name, variant of Lipe.

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