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Updated June 9, 2019

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’).

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