Family name origins & meanings
- English : metonymic nickname for someone with large lips or with some deformity of the lips, from Middle English lippe (Old English lippa).
- English : perhaps from a Middle English personal name, Leppe or Lippe, apparently a short form of an Old English personal name formed with Lēof- ‘dear’, such as Lēofsige, Lēofstan.
- German : from a pet form of the personal name Philipp (see Philip).