Family name origins & meanings
- English (chiefly Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in Lancashire, named from Old Norse hlíf ‘protection’, ‘shelter’ (or an unrecorded Old English cognate) + Old English ēg ‘island’.
- English (chiefly Lancashire) : possibly in a few cases from an Old English personal name composed of the lēof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + sige ‘victory’.