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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Löb) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a strong man, from Middle High German lebe, lewe ‘lion’, or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a lion.
  • Jewish (western Ashkenazic) : variant of Leib.

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