Lieb

Lieb is the 9,847th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,134 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 95,400.

By the numbers

People: 3,134
Rank: 9,847th
How common: 1 in 95,400
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

From the German surname, from Middle High German liep (“dear”), from Old High German liob, from Proto-West Germanic *leubu (“love”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lieb described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Lieb

Elliott H. Lieb (born 1932)American mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics and physics at Princeton University
Marc Lieb (born 1980)racing driver, 2012-2016 World Endurance Championship driver, 2003-2015 24 Hours of Le Mans driver
Tom Lieb (1899–1962)American discus thrower and football player

People named Lieb with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lieb

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.