Ljubica

given name · Latin script

Meaning: violet (flower)

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

Ljubica is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 18th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 172(measured from records)
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 640
  • DEGermany≈1 in 68K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Croatia (measured from records)

24,557 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
104 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 172 (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LjubicaLatin(measured from records)
ЉубицаCyrillic(measured from records)

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(measured from records)

violet (flower)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ljubica 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 Ljubica is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#1824,5571 in 17225KLjubica60
RS Serbia#78≈11,000 est.≈1 in 640—Ljubica53
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#187≈2,200 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Ljubica19
SI Slovenia#6821,5881 in 1.3K1.6KLjubica15
DE Germany—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 68K1Ljubica73
MK North Macedonia#105≈700 est.≈1 in 3.1K—Ljubica25

24,557 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); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ljubica is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, Peru, United States, Serbia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ljubiça

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ljubiça

  • Bulgarian given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Любица, Lyubitsa, Lubica, Liubitsa, Li︠u︡bit︠s︡a

35 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)

1700180019002000Ljubica Vukomanović, b. 1785Princess Zorka of Montenegro, b. 1864Ljubica Ivošević Dimitrov, b. 1884Ljubica Marić, b. 1909Ljubica Štefan, b. 1921Ljubica Adžović, b. 1924Ljubica Acevska, b. 1957Ljubica Jelušič, b. 1960Ljubica Drljača, b. 1978Ljubica Glendža, b. 1997

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 39 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Ljubica
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202125K#22
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202118K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20081.9K#135
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20091.8K#136
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20101.8K#136
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20111.8K#137
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20121.8K#138
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20131.8K#141
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20141.8K#140
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20151.8K#139
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20161.8K#140
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20171.7K#143

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 does the name Ljubica mean, and where does it come from?
violet (flower) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Ljubica a male or female name?
Ljubica 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.
What are other forms of the name Ljubica?
In the etymology graph, Ljubinka, Libuše and Ļubova are forms of the same name in other languages; Ljuba is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Ljubica have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named Ljubica, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ljubica.
Where is Ljubica most common?
Ljubica is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 172 people carrying it.
How common is the name Ljubica?
In Croatia, the national register counted 24,557 people named Ljubica in 2021, about 1 in 172 residents.
How common is Ljubica compared with other names?
In Croatia, Ljubica is the 18th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.

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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, “Ljubica” — the 18th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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