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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German lēbart ‘leopard’, most probably a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a leopard.
  • French : from the personal name Bert, a short form of any of the Germanic compound names with the final element berhta ‘bright’.

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