The leavitt Surname
leavitt Name Meaning and History
- (of Norman origin) nickname from Anglo-Norman French leuet ‘wolf cub’ (see Low 3).
- habitational name from any of the various places in Normandy called Livet. All are of obscure, presumably Gaulish, etymology.
- from the Middle English personal name Lefget, Old English Leofgeat, composed of the elements leof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + the tribal name Geat (see Jocelyn).
- possibly from an unrecorded Middle English survival of the Old English female personal name Leofg¯ð, composed of the elements leof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + g¯ð ‘battle’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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