Leibel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Yiddish personal name Leybl, a pet form of Lxyb (see Leib)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫaɪbəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leibel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 39Kas לייבל(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 600K
- RORomania≈1 in 36Kas לייבל
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Leibel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 600K (inferred from the name graph)
≈590 named לייבל, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled לייבל in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon and ליבל in US United States, AT Austria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Yiddish personal name Leybl, a pet form of Lxyb (see Leib).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leibel 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.
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Martha Leibelb. 1868DEHolocaust victim (born 1868)
- Stanley Leibelb. 1927CAOlympic sailor
- François Leibelb. 1937FRFrench politician
- Rudolph Leibelb. 1942USAmerican medical researcher
- Erika Leibelb. 1944DEGerman badminton player
- Allan Leibelb. 1945CAOlympic sailor
- Lorne Leibelb. 1951CACanadian Olympic athlete
- Blake Leibelb. 1981CACanadian comic book creator, screenwriter and convicted murderer
- Kyla Leibelb. 2001CACanadian swimmer
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 571 | #41,142 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 559 | #37,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 554 | #39,659 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Leibel mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Yiddish personal name Leybl, a pet form of Lxyb (see Leib). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Leibel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫaɪbəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Leibel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 594 people named לייבל in Romania, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Leibel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leibel is densest in the United States — about 1 in 600 thousand people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Leibel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 554 people named Leibel in 2010, about 1 in 600 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/leibelThe 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, “Leibel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.