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The lipe Surname

lipe Name Meaning and History

  1. Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Leipe, a habitational name from places named Leipe, Leippe, and Leipa, all in eastern Germany.
  2. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Lipe, a short form of Lipman.
  3. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): Yiddishized or Germanized form of Lipa 2 or 3.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of lipe Families in the US in 1920
Number of lipe families
 51-99
 18-50
 1-17
 0
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