Livas Family History

Greek: nickname from livas (classical Greek lips) the sirocco a hot dust-laden wind originating in Libya. Since this wind is hot the term was probably a nickname denigrating someone's temper. Compare Liva.

Greek: possibly also a nickname from Turkish liva ‘banner’. Hispanic (Mexico): probably from a shortened form of Spanish olivas ‘olives’ presumably applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked cultivating olive trees or curing and selling olives.

The surname may alternatively be of Greek origin (see above).