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
- 163,053 Historical Documents with Leib on Ancestry
- 52,202 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,947 Census and Voter Lists
- 39,003 Military Records
- 5,325 Immigration Records
- 52,576 Member Trees
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Number of Leib families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Leib census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- 76
- Confederate
- 2
- Union
- 74
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