Origins of Lieuvica

So, I’ve been going through my husband’s family tree, and I found the name Lieuvica. I’ve tried looking it up all over the place and it doesn’t seem to exist as a known name, yet I’ve found one or two others named it, and maybe 2 named Lieuvisa, which might be a sister of this name. Does anybody have any idea where it might originate from?

I haven’t heard the name before, but my first thought was possibly [name_m]French[/name_m] or a language related to/branched from [name_m]French[/name_m] or Latin because of the “Lieu” part. “Lieu” is the [name_m]French[/name_m] word for place. As well, in English lieu can in “in place of”. (English and [name_m]French[/name_m] are both children of Latin)

Yeah, my first thought was [name_m]French[/name_m] as well. It seems as if there is a record of someone coming from [name_f]England[/name_f] who named their child Lieuvisa, but who knows if they are actually English or emigrated there before going to the U.S.

I’d say it’s probably a variant of [name_f]Ludovica[/name_f], which would make it a cousin of [name_f]Louisa[/name_f], [name_f]Lovisa[/name_f] and Liudvika. Once you know that the early forms of the name had a v and c in them, you can see that Lieuvica/Lieuvisa is pretty much an alternative phonetic representation of the sounds in [name_f]Louisa[/name_f].