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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Russian, Belorussian, and Jewish (from Belarus) : habitational name for someone from any of the numerous villages called Lipovki and Lipovka in Belarus or Russia, named with lipa ‘lime tree’.
  • Altered spelling of Polish and Jewish Lipowski.

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