Leavitt Family History
Leavitt Name Meaning
(of Norman origin) nickname from Anglo-Norman French
leuet ‘wolf cub’ (see Low 3).habitational name from
any of the various places in Normandy called Livet. All are of
obscure, presumably Gaulish, etymology.from the Middle English
personal name Lefget, Old English Leofgeat,
composed of the elements leof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + the tribal
name Geat (see Jocelyn).possibly from an
unrecorded Middle English survival of the Old English female personal
name Leofg¯ð, composed of the elements leof
‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + g¯ð ‘battle’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Leavitt Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Leavitt families
 187 - 371  63 - 186 |
 1 - 62  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Leavitt families
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11 - 20 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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