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Updated June 9, 2019

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’.

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