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livingston Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: habitational name from a place in Lothian, originally named in Middle English as Levingston, from an owner called Levin (see Lewin 1), who appears in charters of David I in the early 12th century.
  2. Irish: name adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnshléibhe and Mac Duinnshléibhe (see Dunleavy).
  3. Americanized form of Jewish Lowenstein.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of livingston Families in the US in 1920
Number of livingston families
 285-568
 96-284		 1-95
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Livingston of SC Jean Platt 4
LIVINGSTON's of Aiken County South Carolina Austin Livingston 1
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South Carolina Livingston's - Kitchings-Mill or Orangeburg Austinlivi 3
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Laura Livingston b 1858 d 1932 married Zachariah Moorman l moorman 0
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