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The lipa Surname

lipa Name Meaning and History

  1. Polish, Ukrainian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived by a lime tree, from lipa ‘lime tree’. As a Jewish name, it is also of ornamental origin.
  2. Jewish (from Poland): habitational name for someone from the village of Lipa, in Poland, named with lipa ‘lime tree’.
  3. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from a personal name, variant of Lipe.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of lipa Families in the US in 1920
Number of lipa families
 10-18
 4-9
 1-3
 0
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