# Looby (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/looby/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Irish.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Irish |
| Type | patronymic, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 969 |
| US rank (2010) | 25,503 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 318,623 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.1% (949 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Lúbaigh (“descendant of Lúbach”), a byname originally applied to a cunning person, from lúbach (“looped, coiled; crafty, tricky”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Looby in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 83% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 12% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Looby in Antigua and Barbuda.

## People named Looby

- Kurt Looby, Antigua and Barbuda basketball player (born 1984)

## Similar surnames

Lobo, Loeb, Lobb, Loop, Lovo, Love, Levy, Leyva, Libby, Lavoie, Leiva, Levi.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.