When Margaretha Leib was born in February 1582, in Butzbach, Friedberg, Hesse, Germany, her father, Dillman Leib, was 53 and her mother, Margaretha Touche, was 53. She died on 4 January 1632, in her hometown, at the age of 49, and was buried in Butzbach, Friedberg, Hesse, Germany.
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Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Leyb, meaning ‘lion’, traditional Yiddish translation equivalent of the Hebrew name Yehuda (Judah), with reference to the Old Testament description of Judah as a ‘lion's whelp’ (Genesis 49: 9).
German: from the ancient Germanic personal name Liubo, from liob ‘dear’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
German: nickname from Middle High German līp ‘life, body’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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