Leavitt Family History

English:: (of Norman origin): nickname from Anglo-Norman French leuet ‘wolf cub’ (see Low ). habitational name from any of various places in Normandy called Livet. All are of obscure presumably Gaulish etymology.

from the Middle English personal name Leviet Luviet Levet Lewet Livet Luvet. This can be a male name from Old English Lēofgēat (from lēof ‘dear beloved’ + the tribal name Gēat) or a female name from Old English Lēofgȳth (where the second element is a form of gūth ‘battle’).