Livingston Family History
Livingston Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place in Lothian originally named in Middle English as Levingston. The placename derives from the Middle English personal name Leving (genitive Levinges) + Middle English Older Scots toun ‘town village settlement’. In the US this surname (in any of the two possible senses; see also 2 below) is also established among African Americans. Irish: surname adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnshléibhe and Mac Duinnshléibhe (see Dunleavy ). Americanized form of Jewish Lowenstein .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022