Ukrainian and Polish: topographic name for someone who lived by
a lime tree, from lipka, diminutive of lipa ‘lime tree’
(see Lipa).Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from a pet form
of the personal name Lipe.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic):
from a pet form of the female personal name Libe, derived from
Yiddish libe ‘love’.Polish and Jewish (from Poland and
Ukraine): habitational name for someone from villages called Lipka or
Lipki in Poland and Ukraine.German: from a diminutive of
Lippe 4.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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