Löb Surname
Approximately 1,872 people bear this surname
Löb Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1,644 | 1:48,969 | 6,395 |
| Austria | 192 | 1:44,351 | 7,087 |
| Sweden | 13 | 1:757,443 | 56,422 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1:3,377,435 | 111,911 |
| Poland | 5 | 1:7,601,750 | 167,855 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Denmark | 3 | 1:1,881,572 | 67,227 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Lob (2,193) are calculated separately.
Löb Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Löb Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Löb occurs in Germany more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Lob. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Löb? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 218,739th most common family name worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 3,892,920 people. The surname Löb occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Löb live; 98 percent live in Western Europe and 98 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The last name Löb is most commonly held in Germany, where it is carried by 1,644 people, or 1 in 48,969. In Germany it is mostly found in: Hesse, where 29 percent live, Rhineland-Palatinate, where 18 percent live and Bavaria, where 16 percent live. Aside from Germany it is found in 12 countries. It also occurs in Austria, where 10 percent live and Sweden, where 1 percent live.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Löb
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