Family name origins & meanings
- German : of uncertain origin, possibly a habitational name from places called Lebehn in eastern Mecklenburg and Pomerania.
- Dutch : from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Liebrecht (composed of the elements liut ‘people’, ‘tribe’ + berhta ‘bright’).
- Altered form of Slovenian Leban, which is probably a nickname derived from the archaic word leb ‘forehead’, ‘skull’.