Lubben
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Lodebert, a compound of Mod ‘famous’ -t- berht ‘bright’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫəbən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lubben is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 342K
- NLNetherlands1 in 39K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- 1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lübben in DE Germany.
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 a pet form of the Germanic personal name Lodebert, a compound of Mod ‘famous’ -t- berht ‘bright’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lubben 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 41K | listed | Lübben | 57 |
| US United States | 972 | 1 in 342K | 972 | Lubben | 188 |
| NL Netherlands | 446 | 1 in 39K | 446 | Lubben | 28 |
| IT Italy | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 625K | — | Lubben | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 382K | — | Lubben | 16 |
| SG Singapore | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Lubben | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 17 | 1 in 345K | 17 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Lubben 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.
patronymic from German Lubbe, Dutch Lubbe, short forms of the personal names Leopold and Lubbert (see Luebbert).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Norwegian Nynorsk, Short, thick and round; chubby, plump
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)
- Shelley Lubbenb. 1968USauthor, singer, motivational speaker, and former pornographic actress (1968-2019)
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 972 | #25,445 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 932 | #27,401 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 902 | #25,673 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 446 | #4,412 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Lubben mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Lodebert, a compound of Mod ‘famous’ -t- berht ‘bright’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lubben?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫəbən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lubben have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Lubben in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lübben.
- Where is Lubben most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lubben is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lubben?
- In the United States, the national register counted 972 people named Lubben in 2010, about 1 in 342 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/lubbenThe 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, “Lubben”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.