Leiba
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/leiba/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leiba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Probably a variant spelling of Leiva.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 49K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 93K
- UYUruguay1 in 32K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈580 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Probably a variant spelling of Leiva.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Leiba counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Leiba | 14 |
| AR Argentina | 490 | 1 in 93K | 490 | Leiba | 30 |
| US United States | 478 | 1 in 696K | 519 | Leiba | 40 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Leiba | 10 |
| UY Uruguay | 105 | 1 in 32K | 105 | Leiba | 11 |
| IL Israel | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Leiba | 5 |
| MD Moldova | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 69K | 2 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Leiba is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, clod, divot, clump of earth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, partitive singular of leib
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Leiba Leo Astb. 1878CZHolocaust victim (born 1878)
- Leon Trotskib. 1879MXnot in their usual nameRussian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
- Leiba Hofmeklerisb. 1900LTLithuanian pianist (1900-1941)
- Leiba X. Rodmanb. 1949USAmerican mathematician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 519 | #44,544 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 490 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 478 | #44,872 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 370 | #52,608 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 105 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Leiba?
- A machine transcription gives /leiba/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Leiba mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably a variant spelling of Leiva. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Leiba have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 580 people named Leiba in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leiba.
- Where is Leiba most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leiba is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 32 thousand people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Leiba?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 490 people named Leiba, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leibaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Leiba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.