Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant of Libson, a metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Libe, from Yiddish ‘love’.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : patronymic from the Yiddish personal name Lipe (a short form of Lipman).
- English : patronymic from Lipp 2.
- English : habitational name from Lipson in Devon, which is possibly named from Old English hlīep ‘leap’, ‘steep place’ + stān ‘stone’.