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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Danish : variant of Ibsen.
  • German : from the Germanic personal name Ivo (see Iwen).
  • English : when not of Danish or German origin, possibly a variant of Ipstone, a habitational name from Ibstones, a place in Staffordshire, or from Ipsden in Oxfordshire.

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