Livingston (surname)

Livingston is a surname with several different origins. The name itself originates in Scotland as a habitational name derived from Livingston in Lothian which was originally named in Middle English "Levingston". This place name was originally named after a man named Levin who appears in several 12th-century charters. In Ireland (and in some cases Scotland), the name was adopted by people bearing the Gaelic surnames "Ó Duinnshléibhe" and "Mac Duinnshléibhe". Livingston can also be an Americanized form of "Lowenstein", a Jewish surname.