The levings Surname
levings Name Meaning and History
- North German: variant of the habitational name Lewing, from a place near Stade in Lower Saxony.
- North German: patronymic from a personal name (Lehwing or Lewien), formed with Middle Low German lev ‘dear’ + win ‘friend’.
- English: perhaps a habitational name from Levens in Cumbria, probably so named from the Old English personal name Leofa (+ genitive n) + næss ‘promontory’, ‘headland’.
- Possibly a hypercorrected spelling of Irish Levens, a County Louth name, which Woulfe interprets as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dhuinnshlébhín, a variant of Dunleavy.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Thread | Author | Replies |
| Looking for Levings children adopted out parents were Ernest Bessie Levings children would be around 50-80 years old | Brenna Davis Blevins | 3 |
| family history |
 GretchenL
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| Thomas Henry Leving/ Kate Quinn>NYC |
karolj1
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| Levings in WA, & OR ? |
GLevings2263
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| from Scotland? or from where? |
andreweninge
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| Charles Levings (Livens) 1840-1903 |
carolyn_drews
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| Levings/Casselman | MaryEllen Casselman | 3 |
| Family tree Leving / Levink | Han Levink | 3 |
| just wondering? | Sean Levings | 1 |
| John Levins of Roxbury, MA |
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