Ljuban

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ʎuban/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ljuban is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Derived from [Бу ‘nice, loved’.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 7.6K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 49K
  • SESweden1 in 510K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ljuban itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Croatia (measured from records)

559 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
10 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LjubanLatin(measured from records)
ЉубанCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Љубан in BA Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(inferred from the name graph)

Derived from [Бу ‘nice, loved’

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ljuban counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ljuban is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia5591 in 7.6K559——
RS Serbia≈140 est.≈1 in 50K—Ljuban10
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina≈44 est.≈1 in 87K—Љубан3
SI Slovenia431 in 49K43—1
SE Sweden201 in 510K22—2

559 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ljuban is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Lyuban

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBok Ljuban,Hi Ljuban, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Ljuban
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021559#719
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021355—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200953#807
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201952#943
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200852#811
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202051#989
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201251#876
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201151#860
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201051#857
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201350#898
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201849#945
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201549#914

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What are other forms of the name Ljuban?
In the etymology graph, Luben and Ljuben are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Ljuban?
A machine transcription gives /ʎuban/ (IPA) for Croatian.
Is Ljuban a male or female name?
Ljuban is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ljuban mean?
Recorded meaning: Derived from [Бу ‘nice, loved’
In which country does Ljuban have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 559 people named Ljuban, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ljuban most common?
Ljuban is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.6 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Ljuban?
In Croatia, the national register counted 559 people named Ljuban in 2021, about 1 in 7.6 thousand residents.

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The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ljuban”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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