Leibel
Leibel is a German family name . The name is mainly used in the Palatinate and Alsace .
Origin and meaning
Leibel derives from the old German first name Liutbald with the meaning: "People bold, bold, especially people = very bold". The name Liutbald is made up of two names: althochdeuschem Liut (people or people) and Bald (bold). The fall of the final consonant resulted in Bald: ball und bel.
Some old German names appear in an extraordinarily large number of different forms as a result of dialect and other influences. Due to the orthographic deviations, the name Liutbald occurs in more than twenty forms: Liebaldt, Liebold, Liebhold, Leupold, Leopold , Leybold, Leibel, Liebel , Leibelt , Leibhold, Leipold, Leipel, Leubel, Loebell , etc.
variants
body
- family name derived from the old German nickname Liubo (Liob).
- In Middle High German, it was taken over by līp "life, body, body".
- Profession transfer name to Middle High German Leip "the formed and whole bread, loaf of bread" for a baker. In the southern German-speaking region: Leible, Laible , Leibel, Laibel, Laiblin, Läubli or Leibl.
Name bearer
- Lorne Leibel (* 1951), Canadian sailor
- Wilhelm Leibl (1844–1900), German painter
swell
- Albert Heintze : The German family names historically, geographically, linguistically . 4th improved edition: Halle 1914.
- Rosa and Volker Kohlheim (arrangement): Duden - family names . Dudenverlag, Mannheim 2005, ISBN 3-411-70852-2 .