Lioba

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.

Lioba is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• German61%

  weibl. Vom., verselbstständigte Kurz­ form von Namen, die mit »Li(e)b-« (ahd. Hob »Heb«) gebildet sind. Namenspatronin ist die heilige Lioba, Äbtissin in Tauberbischofs­ heim (8. Jh.); N a m e n s t a g : 28. September.

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Spanish18%

  Germanic hypocoristic from liub ‘dear, beloved, kind’.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• English11%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Lioba in English.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Lioba is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Mexico, Brazil, Spain, France

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

  Also written Lióba

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Lioba is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Amada

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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.

• Leobab. 710DEnot in their usual nameAnglo-Saxon nun
• Lioba Bettenb. 1948DEGerman librarian, author and publisher
• Lioba Braunb. 1957DEGerman university teacher and singer
• Lioba Happelb. 1957DEGerman writer
• Lioba Albusb. 1958DEGerman actress
• Lioba Reddekerb. 1961DEGerman art historian (1961-2011)
• Lioba Bavingb. 1965DEGerman university teacher and psychologist
• Lioba Werthb. 1972DEGerman psychologist
• Lioba Menzelb. 1992DEGerman association football player
• Lioba Theisb. 2000DEGerman art historian

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).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Lioba mean, and where does it come from?

Germanic hypocoristic from liub ‘dear, beloved, kind’. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.

How do you pronounce Lioba?

A machine transcription gives /lɪoːba/ (IPA) for German.

Is Lioba a male or female name?

Lioba is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

In which country does Lioba have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Lioba in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lioba.

How common is the name Lioba?

In the Netherlands, the national register counted 99 people named Lioba, about 1 in 175 thousand residents.