The levin Surname
levin Name Meaning and History
- Jewish (mainly from Lithuania and Belarus): Slavicized form of Levy.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German: from the personal name Levin, which was also used by German Christians as a derivative of Liebwin. As a Jewish name it sometimes represents a pet form of western Yiddish ‘lion’ (see Loewe 2).
- Russian: patronymic of Lëva, a pet form of the personal name Lev + the Russian possessive suffix -in.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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