habitational name from a place in
Lancashire, named from Old Norse hlíf ‘protection’,
‘shelter’ (or an unrecorded Old English cognate) + Old English
eg ‘island’.possibly in a few cases from an Old English
personal name composed of the leof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ +
sige ‘victory’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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