The Leibel surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 554 people carried this name — #39,659 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 526,300 people counted. That is down 1% from 559 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Leibel surname
From Yiddish לייבל (leybl), a pet form of the personal name לייב (leyb).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Leibel» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 132 people named Leibel.
4 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 10 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
22 people named Leibel is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Leibel,
with a public archive behind them.
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Abraham Leibel 1859–1940
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Jente Leibel 1860–1942
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Martha Leibel 1868–1945
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Chawe Leibel 1879–
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Stanley Leibel 1927–2021 · sailor
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François Leibel 1937– · politician
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Leibel.
- Lehnert 1,241 · U.S. census
- Lehoux 208 · U.S. census
- Lehr 6,537 · U.S. census
- Lehrer 1,743 · U.S. census
- Lehrmann 451 · U.S. census
- Leib 1,845 · U.S. census
- Leibenguth 244 · U.S. census
- Leiber 417 · U.S. census
- Leicht 1,576 · U.S. census
- Leichtnam 188 · U.S. census
- Leick 672 · U.S. census
- Leidinger 135 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Leibel is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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