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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : affectionate nickname, literally ‘child of love’ in German.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish female name Libe ‘love’ + Yiddish kind ‘child’.

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