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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Leipe, a habitational name from places named Leipe, Leippe, and Leipa, all in eastern Germany.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish personal name Lipe, a short form of Lipman.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : Yiddishized or Germanized form of Lipa 2 or 3.

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