Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (from Belarus and Poland; Lipnik) : habitational name for someone from Lipniki, now in Belarus, and Lipnik, in Poland.
- Americanized spelling of Slovenian Lipnik, habitational name for a person from any of numerous places called Lipje or Lipe, named with lipa ‘lime tree’, ‘linden’, or a topographic name, denoting someone who lived by a place where lime trees grow.