Leibel

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from the Yiddish personal name Leybl, a pet form of Lxyb (see Leib)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

Pronunciation:

Leibel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • USUnited States1 in 600K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 4.2M
  • BEBelgium1 in 12M

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. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

554 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
16 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 600K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
לייבלHebrew(measured from records)
LeiblLatin(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled לייבל in IL Israel, LB Lebanon and ליבל in US United States.

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).

Cited for this meaning 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.

Where Leibel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5541 in 600K571ליבל13
IL Israel222as לייבל1 in 39K222לייבל16
CZ Czechia100as Leibl1 in 107K100——
BR Brazil501 in 4.2M50—2
CH Switzerland10as Leibl1 in 840K10——
LB Lebanon≈7 est.≈1 in 863K—לייבל1

554 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling leibel. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
18501900195020002050Martha Leibel, b. 1868Stanley Leibel, b. 1927François Leibel, b. 1937Rudolph Leibel, b. 1942Erika Leibel, b. 1944Allan Leibel, b. 1945Lorne Leibel, b. 1951Blake Leibel, b. 1981Kyla Leibel, b. 2001

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)
FormalDear Leibel,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Leibel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020571#41,142
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000559#37,480
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010554#39,659
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—50#104,821
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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.
In which country does Leibel have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 554 people named Leibel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ליבל.
Where is Leibel most common?
Leibel is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 600 thousand people carrying 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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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 2026-10-13.

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