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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic nickname for someone with large lips or with some deformity of the lips, from Middle English lippe (Old English lippa).
  • English : perhaps from a Middle English personal name, Leppe or Lippe, apparently a short form of an Old English personal name formed with Lēof- ‘dear’, such as Lēofsige, Lēofstan.
  • German : from a pet form of the personal name Philipp (see Philip).

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