Lipa Family History
- Lipa Name Meaning
- Polish, Ukrainian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived by a lime tree, from lipa ‘lime tree’. As a Jewish name, it is also of ornamental origin. Jewish (from Poland): habitational name for someone from the village of Lipa, in Poland, named with lipa ‘lime tree’. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from a personal name, variant of Lipe.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 13,257 Historical Documents with Lipa on Ancestry
- 7,711 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,397 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,266 Military Records
- 1,040 Immigration Records
- 1,843 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lipa census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Lipa census records
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