Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from a place in Essex, so named from the Old English personal name Lissa (probably a pet form of Lēofsige; see Livesay 2) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
- Scottish : habitational name from places in West Lothian and Midlothian, which probably have the same origin as in 1. This surname is also found in Ireland.