Loeb

Loeb is the 10,300th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,975 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 100,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,975
Rank: 10,300th
How common: 1 in 100,000
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Origin German, Yiddish, from Germanic languages

from a dialectal variant of Löwe (“lion”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Black, not Hispanic 3.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Notable people called Loeb

Sébastien Loeb (born 1974)French racing driver
Jacques Loeb (1859–1924)German-American physiologist and biologist
Avi Loeb (born 1962)Israeli astrophysicist
Lisa Loeb (born 1968)American musician
Jeph Loeb (born 1958)American comics writer
Jamie Loeb (born 1995)American female tennis player

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

Surnames like Loeb

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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.