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.