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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (from Belarus and Poland; Lipnik) : habitational name for someone from Lipniki, now in Belarus, and Lipnik, in Poland.
  • Americanized spelling of Slovenian Lipnik, habitational name for a person from any of numerous places called Lipje or Lipe, named with lipa ‘lime tree’, ‘linden’, or a topographic name, denoting someone who lived by a place where lime trees grow.

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