# Lubeck

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. A surname.
2. A town in the Shire of Northern Grampians and the Shire of Yarriambiack, central western Victoria, Australia.

## Etymology
* 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.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/lubeck