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.