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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • This has the form of an English surname but it is not found in English sources and may rather be an Americanized form of German Jungleib (a nickname meaning ‘young man’), of which the second element has been mistaken for Lieb ‘love’.

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