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The Loeb surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,059 people carried this name — #10,491 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 96,200 people counted. That is down 2% from 3,119 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Loeb surname

Borrowed from German Löb, from a dialectal variant of Löwe (“lion”).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Loeb» (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 318 people named Loeb.

30 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 20 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 30
Bas-Rhin 146
Paris 55
Moselle 24
Haut-Rhin 15
Yvelines 10
Meurthe-et-Moselle 8
Marne 7
Meuse 5

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

43 people named Loeb live in Switzerland.

They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Basel-Stadt.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Basel-Stadt 12
Zurich 8
Geneva 6
Solothurn 5
Vaud 5
Bern 4
Basel-Landschaft 3

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In the Nordic population registers

51 people named Loeb is counted in Sweden.

Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.

Counted, by country

Sweden (2022) 51

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).

In print

Loeb in American newspapers,
1904–1924.

Newspaper page from The Mt. Sterling Advocate carrying the name Loeb
The Mt. Sterling Advocate 1904-08-31
Newspaper page from Evening Public Ledger carrying the name Loeb
Evening Public Ledger 1915-10-22
Newspaper page from The Bamberg Herald carrying the name Loeb
The Bamberg Herald 1924-06-05

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 156,564 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Loeb,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Solomon Loeb
    Solomon Loeb 1828–1903 · banker
  • Isidore Loeb
    Isidore Loeb 1839–1892 · rabbi
  • Jules-Léopold Loeb
    Jules-Léopold Loeb 1852–1933 · composer
  • Jacques Loeb
    Jacques Loeb 1859–1924 · zoologist
  • Jacques Loeb
    Jacques Loeb 1859–1924 · zoologist
  • Pessel Bermann Loeb Fraenkel d. 1727

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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Surnames next to Loeb.

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