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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (from Belarus) : patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Lipe (see Lippe 1) + the eastern Slavic possessive suffix -in.
  • Jewish (from Belarus) : metronymic from a pet form of the female personal name Libe (see Lipka 3).

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