Given name & surname · Yiddish
לייב
לייב (Leyb) is a masculine given name from Middle High German, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Yiddish.
YiddishWritten in Hebrew script, read right to left. In English: Loeb.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
לייב comes from Middle High German, and ultimately from Latin.
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How it developed
From Middle High German lewe, from Old High German leo, from Proto-West Germanic *lēwō, from Latin leō.
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לייב’s family of names
In English usage, לייב has a later derivative in Leibel. In Yiddish usage, לייב can be written in the Roman alphabet as LEYB. In Hebrew usage, לייב as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form Loeb.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named לייב
- Leib KvitkoSoviet Yiddish poet (1890-1952)
- Leib NaidusRussian Empire Yiddish poet (1890–1918)
- Leib YaffeRussian Jewish newspaper editor (1876–1948)
- Leyb GorfinkelLithuanian Jewish activist, politician, journalist, Holocaust survivor (1896-1976)
- Leib LangfusPolish rabbi1910–1944
- Leib GlantzAmerican musician1898–1964
- Leib GurwiczBritish rabbi1906–1982
- Lejb WulmanPolish-American physician (1887-1971)
- Leib MalachJewish Yiddish poet and playwright1894–1936
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