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Leib

FieldValue
languageYiddish
regionEurope
genderMale
meaningLion

the given name

Leib is a given name, and (less often) a surname usually of Jewish origin. Leib often stems from לייב (leib), the Yiddish word for Hebrew "heart" לב (lev, leb) and with the diminutives Leibel/Leibl and Leibele, or from the Yiddish word for "lion". The Standard German word for lion is Löwe; other – partly dialectal – German forms of the word are Löw, Loew, Löb, Leb and Leib.

Surnames derived from the name

"Leib" may itself be a surname. There are a number of patronymic surnames derived from the name and its variants based on East Slavic patronymic suffix -ich/-icz.

  • Labovich, Lebovitz, Leibovich, Leibovici, Leibovitch/Leybovitch, Leibovitz
  • Lebowitz, Leibowitz, Lejbowicz, Libowitz, Liebowitz

Given name

  • Aryeh Leib, multiple persons
  • Leyb ben Oyzer (died 1727), shamash ha-kehilla (beadle or sexton of the congregation), trustee, and secretary or notary, of the Jewish community in Amsterdam
  • Isaac Leib Goldberg (1860–1935), Lithuanian-Israeli Zionist leader and philanthropist
  • Leib Gurwicz (1906–1982), Lithuanian-British rabbi
  • Leib Kvitko (1890–1952), Soviet poet
  • Leib Langfus (died 1944), Polish rabbi and Auschwitz victim
  • Yehuda Leib Maimon (1875–1962), Israeli rabbi
  • Leib Milstein (Lewis Milestone, 1895–1980), Moldovan-American film director
  • Yehudah Leib Pinsker (Leon Pinsker, 1821–1891), Polish political activist and physician
  • Leib Sarah's (Aryeh Leib the son of Sarah, 1730–1796), rabbi
  • Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman (1913–2017), Israeli rabbi
  • Zalman Leib Teitelbaum (born 1951), American rabbi
  • Leib Tropper (born 1950), American rabbi
  • Leib Weissberg (1893–1942), Croatian rabbi
  • Leib Yaffe (died 1948), Israeli poet and journalist

Surname

  • Ethan Leib (born 1975), American law professor
  • Gary Leib (1955–2021), American cartoonist and animator
  • Günther Leib (1927–2024), German baritone and voice professor
  • Michael Leib (1760–1822), American politician
  • Georg Leib (1846-1910), Royal Councillor of Commerce and German philanthropist

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