Lipa Family History

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