Leib

boys:

396 births since 1958

#4190 (9th percentile)

overall:

396 births since 1958

#7343 (5th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Leib is the #7,343 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 396 recorded births since 1958. This represents the 5.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,190 (8.6% percentile) for all time with 396 births since 1958.

Leib first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1958 (first recorded for boys in 1958). Birth data for Leib is available in 38 out of the 66 years between 1958 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For boys, Leib reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #892) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Leib is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #892 (2.1% percentile) with 13 births per million.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leib".

1958 2023 19582023

Key Statistics

Total Births
396
Peak Births
24
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1958
Peak Percentile
2.1%
Current Percentile
2.1%
Peak Rank
#892
Current Rank
#892
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Leib

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Leib. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 44.4% confident that Leib is pronounced as laib, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is leeb, at 37.8% confidence, with 1 syllables.

1
44.4%
1
37.8%
1
17.8%
laib (1 syllable)
44.4% confidence
L AY1 B
leeb (1 syllable)
Verified
37.8% confidence
L IY1 B
layb (1 syllable)
17.8% confidence
L EY1 B

Possible Additional Pronunciations

If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Leib? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Leib. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Leib, please vote using the thumbs up button.

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like L AY1 B) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

© 2025 NamePlay.org

Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker