Leib

Leib is a given name, and (less often) a surname usually of Jewish origin. ''Leib'' often stems from לייב (''leib''), the Yiddish word for Hebrew "heart" לב (lev, leb) and with the diminutives Leibel/Leibl and Leibele, or from the Yiddish word for "lion". The Standard German word for lion is ''Löwe''; other – partly dialectal – German forms of the word are ''Löw'', ''Loew'', ''Löb'', ''Leb'' and ''Leib''. Provided by Wikipedia