Family name origins & meanings
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a pleasant or agreeable person, from Middle High German liep ‘dear’, ‘beloved’; Yiddish lib or German lieb. This word was also used as a personal name, both alone (German) and in compounds (German and Jewish).
- German (of Slavic origin) : from a short form of the various compound Slavic personal names formed with lubo- ‘love’ as the first element.