Family name origins & meanings
- English : nickname from Anglo-Norman French l’eveske ‘the bishop’ (see Bishop).
- English : from the Middle English personal name Lefeke, Old English Lēofeca, a derivative of Lēofa (see Leaf).
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from Yiddish Leyvik, a pet form of the personal name Leyvi, itself a pet form of the Biblical name Levi (see Levy).