Leib

#3,814 in 2025Boys' name

Lion

Leib has been given to 448 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #3,814 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Leib, 2025

1 in 114,000

Leib over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leib: meaning, origin, and history

Lion

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leib means

Leib means “lion”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 448 boys were recorded with the name Leib between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,456 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,150 in 2020 to #3,814 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,912 in 2015 to #3,814 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Leib?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 114,000; 29 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 58,900; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #3,814; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 79,239 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Leib sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leib. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leibs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leib was born before 2011 — so the typical Leib is around 14 today.

Median birth year: 2011; About 14 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 29.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 79.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 448; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 29.7% of all recorded uses (133).

Is Leib rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: +989; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +1,336; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +3,098; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 2.42×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (29)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,456; 1959

Spellings of Leib

Leib is not the most common spelling — Luis is, with 18.8% against Leib's 0.03%.

Luis18.8%292,959
Leo16.7%259,988
Lee15.0%233,627
Levi13.8%215,013
Leon11.7%182,638
Lewis10.0%155,766
Neil6.7%104,869
Reid2.6%40,791

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Leib is used

Across 1910–2025, Leib was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 55,057 across all states with data.

22 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Leib has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leib around the world

Where Leib ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2021–2024
#4,271
in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Leib by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #3,814
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 1,336
Best rank ever: #3,456; 1959
Peak year: 2025; 29 that year
First recorded: 1958
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 448
Count in 2025: 29

Names similar to Leib

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Leith Leiby Leilan Leiland Leibish Leif Leiam Leim Leium Leigh Lei Leiran Leion Leiden Leio Leila Leiv Leighton Leilani Leihum Leigham Leighland Leilend Leilynd

Sibling names for Leib

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Karleigh Keren Eloisa Kendyl Anabel Shoshana Nila Kamilah

For a brother

Evans Hamilton Caesar Tobin Jerimiah Jorden Henri Gray

Explore around Leib

Top names of 2025, Leib's peak year The 2020s in full Other names that peaked in 1959 Boys' names starting with L Yiddish Boy Names