Surname · Russian
Лебедь
“swan (bird)”
Лебедь (Lébedʹ) is a surname. It is used in Russian.
RussianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Lebed.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Лебедь goes back to a word meaning “swan (bird).”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Лебедь’s family of names
In Russian usage, Лебедь as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the German form LEBED. In Russian usage, Лебедь as a surname has a transliteration in Lebedʹ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Лебедь has relatives in 3 languages.
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
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Yoleah
“resembling the violet flower”
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Mannley
“from the hero's meadow; from the man's meadow”
>99% boys
Gülajar
“flower” · “appearance”
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Daisea
“of the day's eye; resembling a flower”
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Craine
“resembling the long-legged bird”
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Yardly
“from the fenced-in meadow”
71% boys · 29% girls
Langleigh
“from the long meadow”
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Caubi
“forest” · “green”
>99% boys