LeeB
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Middle High German lewe ‘lion’, dialect leb, used either as a nickname for a brave or regal person, or as a habitational name from a house sign
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈɫib/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
LeeB is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 1M(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 172K
- SESweden1 in 262K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- 1 in 172K (inferred from the name graph)
49 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Middle High German lewe ‘lion’, dialect leb, used either as a nickname for a brave or regal person, or as a habitational name from a house sign.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)LeeB counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | — | 49 | 1 in 172K | 49 | LeeB | 12 |
| SE Sweden | — | 39 | 1 in 262K | 39 | LeeB | 9 |
| AR Argentina | — | 37 | 1 in 1.2M | 37 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 22 | 1 in 486K | 23 | — | — |
| AT Austria | #296 | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | LeeB | 75 |
49 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024, counting the spelling leeb. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)LeeB is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Americanized spelling of Lieb or Loeb.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In pdc, loaf (of bread)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-ecg, lion
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Anton Joseph Leebb. 1769CZAustrian politician (1769-1837)
- Wilhelm Ritter von Leebb. 1876DEGerman field marshal and war criminal (1876–1956)
- Emil Leebb. 1881DEBavarian-German general
- Anton Leebb. 1913ATAustrian officer (1913-2008)
- Michel Leebb. 1946DEFrench actor
- Bill Leebb. 1966ATAustrian-Canadian musician and record producer
- Thomas Leebb. 1977ATAustrian musician
- Brad Leebb. 1979CACanadian ice hockey player
- Kaitlyn Leebb. 1988CACanadian actress
- Tom Leebb. 1990FRFrench actor, singer and comedian
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 49 | #18,963 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 39 | #15,267 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 37 | — |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 23 | #14,806 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 22 | #51,105 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name LeeB mean, and where does it come from?
- from Middle High German lewe ‘lion’, dialect leb, used either as a nickname for a brave or regal person, or as a habitational name from a house sign. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce LeeB?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫib/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does LeeB have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 49 people named LeeB, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled LeeB.
- Where is LeeB most common?
- LeeB is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 172 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name LeeB?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 49 people named LeeB in 2024, about 1 in 172 thousand residents.
- How common is LeeB compared with other names?
- In Austria, LeeB is the 296th most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leebThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “LeeB” — the 296th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.