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amother

Mon, Jun 29 2020, 12:49 am

How to spell the name ליבא in english.

amother

Pearl

Mon, Jun 29 2020, 12:51 am

Leeba

Britmummy

Mon, Jun 29 2020, 12:52 am

Liba

amother

Papaya

Mon, Jun 29 2020, 12:54 am

I've seen
Lieba
Leeba
Liba

amother

cornflower

Mon, Jun 29 2020, 12:56 am

Leba

amother

Wine

Mon, Jun 29 2020, 4:22 am

Mazel Tov on the opportunity of naming a daughter. You are the mother and you could spell it however which way you want. There are variations and there’s no right or wrong way.

amother

Mon, Jun 29 2020, 4:39 am

Ive seen it spelled
Leeba
Leba
Liba
Lieba
Leiba

And we just can't figure out which way to spell it.

amother

Wine

Mon, Jun 29 2020, 5:06 am

I have two cousins with that name. One spells it Leiba and the other Liba. I think I would pick Liba.

zaq

Mon, Jun 29 2020, 9:41 am

What looks best to you, OP? Go with that. I'm partial to Liba because I go for phonetics. A Spanish or French speaker will never mispronounce it. For English speakers, though, Leeba is less likely to be mispronounced. Both Lieba and Leiba are likely to be pronounced LIE-ba, and Leba will be called LEB-a.

amother

Lilac

Mon, Jun 29 2020, 10:29 am

I'm partial to Leba becuase I grew up with a Leba. Then again, a classmate spells her daughter's name, one of those "could be spelled 5 different ways" name, the same way I do because that was her first exposure.

stillnewlywed

Mon, Jun 29 2020, 10:35 am

Leba

amother

Mon, Jun 29 2020, 12:41 pm

My husband's niece spells it Leba but to me it looks weird like that like pronounced LE ba like in Lebanon.
I have a cousin that spells it Leiba and a friend that spells it Lieba plus another friend that spells it Leeba.

I like Liba the best, I have a daughter with a similar type name that we spell with an "I". But my husband thinks that spelling it like that then it would be pronounced like the "I" in it.

So now not sure which way to go.

amother

Anemone

Thu, Jul 09 2020, 5:22 pm

It should be spelled Lieba because of German influences, but you are welcome to spell it as you wish. I try to spell names as close as possible to their origins to maintain the "name." That being said, all of my children have Secular English names so the spelling their Jewish names is pretty irrelevant since it will never be on an actual legal document and just on homework in school.

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Khaki

Thu, Jul 09 2020, 5:28 pm

Libba, that's how I spell my daughter's name. My sis spells it like this too

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