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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Sephardic) : Anglecized form of ‘Lisbon’, (Portuguese Lisboa), the capital city of Portugal. The name is first recorded in the Latin form Olisipo and is of uncertain, possibly Carthaginian, origin.

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