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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Ukrainian and Polish : topographic name for someone who lived by a lime tree, from lipka, diminutive of lipa ‘lime tree’ (see Lipa).
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from a pet form of the personal name Lipe.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from a pet form of the female personal name Libe, derived from Yiddish libe ‘love’.
  • Polish and Jewish (from Poland and Ukraine) : habitational name for someone from villages called Lipka or Lipki in Poland and Ukraine.
  • German : from a diminutive of Lippe 4.

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