The surname Lubeck
A surname, carried by 834 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L120
Origin
* As a Dutch and North/Low German surname, from the city of Lübeck in Schleswig-Holstein. * As a Slovak surname, from Ľubek, pet form of various names like Ľubomir formed from ľúbiť (“to love”). Similarly also from Polabian Liubice (“lovely”), cognate with Polish luby + -ica.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 834 people named Lubeck in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 370,198 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 798.
Who is named Lubeck
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Lubeck identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as two or more races and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Lubeck
Lubeck has the Soundex code L120, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L120.
Questions
- Where does the surname Lubeck come from?
- * As a Dutch and North/Low German surname, from the city of Lübeck in Schleswig-Holstein. * As a Slovak surname, from Ľubek, pet form of various names like Ľubomir formed from ľúbiť (“to love”). Similarly also from Polabian Liubice (“lovely”), cognate with Polish luby + -ica.
- How common is the surname Lubeck?
- 834 people in the United States had the surname Lubeck in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 370,198 Americans. It ranked 28,587th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lubeck?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lubeck identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Lubeck getting more or less common?
- More common. 798 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 834 in 2010, up 4.5%.