Levee

Family name origins & meanings

• French (Levée) : from levée ‘raised (ground)’, ‘bank’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a piece of high ground.
• French (Levée) : metonymic occupational name for a tax-collector, from levée (d’impôts) ‘tax levy’.
• French (Levée) : Americanized spelling of French Léveillé (see Leveille).