Liuba
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Liuba is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 1Kas Ljuba(measured from records)
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 2.4Kas Люба
- UAUkraine≈1 in 10Kas Люба
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 Liuba 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- 1 in 489 (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 named Люба, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Люба in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus, Ljuba in HR Croatia, SI Slovenia and Lyuba in BG Bulgaria.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Liuba 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #394 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | #158 | Люба | 133 |
| MD Moldova | #147 | 6,883 | 1 in 489 | 6.9K | Liuba | 22 |
| UA Ukraine | #261 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Люба | 40 |
| HR Croatia | #155 | 4,199as Ljuba | 1 in 1K | 4.2K | Ljuba | 26 |
| BG Bulgaria | #386 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Lyuba | 54 |
| BY Belarus | #237 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 5 | Люба | 14 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 383as Ljuba | 1 in 5.5K | 383 | Ljuba | 6 |
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); e-services.md — living population register; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); SURS — resident population given names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Liuba is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, dim of Liubov'.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In got, romanization of 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌱𐌰
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lyuba Karagyulevab. 1894BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian educator and activist
- Liuba Chișinevschib. 1911RORomanian communist politician
- Lyuba Enchevab. 1914BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian pianist
- Liuba Wolfb. 1923BGjewelry designer and sculptor (1923–2005)
- Lyuba Kolchakovab. 1927BGnot in their usual nameballerina
- Liuba Kirovab. 1943BGBulgarian-Swiss painter, lithographer and gallery owner (born 1943)
- Liuba GiulianiITItalian high school teacher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 6.9K | #141 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Is Liuba a male or female name?
- Liuba is a female 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.
- In which country does Liuba have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Люба in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Liuba most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Liuba is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 489 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Liuba?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 6,883 people named Liuba, about 1 in 489 residents.
- How common is Liuba compared with other names?
- In Russia, Liuba is the 394th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liubaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Liuba” — the 394th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.