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loving Name Meaning and History
- English: from a Middle English personal name Lyfing, Old English Leofing, based on leof ‘dear’.
- Swedish: apparently an ornamental name formed from the place-name element lov-, meaning unknown, + the suffix -ing (see Arning).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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