Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : of uncertain origin; perhaps a pseudo-Germanized form of the Yiddish personal name Leybl, a pet form of Leyb (see Leib).
- German (Löbel) : see Loebel.
- French : nickname for a deceitful individual or for a flatterer, from a diminutive of Old French lobe ‘flattery’ (of Germanic origin; compare Old High German lob ‘praise’).