Family name origins & meanings
- Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Leipe, a habitational name from places named Leipe, Leippe, and Leipa, all in eastern Germany.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish personal name Lipe, a short form of Lipman.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : Yiddishized or Germanized form of Lipa 2 or 3.