Family name origins & meanings
- French : from the Germanic personal name Leobin, a pet form of any of the compound names formed with leub, liup, liob ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ as the first element. St. Leobin was a bishop of Chartres in the 6th century (whence the name’s popularity in the Middle Ages), and several places were named Saint-Lubin after him, as for example in Eure, Eure-et-Loir, and Loir-et-Cher.
- Jewish (from Belarus) : habitational name for someone from Lyubin and Lyubny, now in Belarus.
- Jewish (from Belarus) : metronymic from the Yiddish personal name Lube, from eastern Slavic ‘love’.