Leib Family History
- Leib Name Meaning
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Leyb, meaning ‘lion’, traditional Yiddish translation equivalent of the Hebrew name Yehuda (Judah), with reference to the Old Testament description of Judah as ‘a lion’s whelp’ (Genesis 49: 9). French (Alsace): from a Germanic personal name Leibo (from an earlier form Laibo), the element laib- being related to Gothic laiba ‘remnant’, Old High German leipa ‘relic’, ‘memento (of a family)’. Altered spelling of German Lieb.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 141,653 Historical Documents with Leib on Ancestry
- 53,182 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 14,040 Census and Voter Lists
- 39,007 Military Records
- 5,337 Immigration Records
- 30,087 Member Trees
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Number of Leib families
 3 - 3  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Leib census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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