Meaning :dear friend,of lewin ' s town,livingston as a youth is the name of ancient english origin and the meaning of livingston is "leofwine settlement". the old english, the personal name leofwine means "dear friend". livingston can also be traced to two other ancestors. it is irish, in the name duinnshleibhe, in the sense of "brown mountain". the other is the jewish surname of lion's arch, in the meaning of "stone lion". the livingston family of prominent hudson river landowners in the 18th and 19th centuries.
