Luba
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Luba is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. In English, recorded as A female given name from Ukrainian [in turn from Slavic].
- USUnited States1 in 177K(measured from records)
- GEGeorgia1 in 2.1Kas ლუბა
- ILIsrael≈1 in 8.5Kas לובה
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 Luba 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 230 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
4,199 named Ljuba, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled לובה in IL Israel, RO Romania, LV Latvia.
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)
from a pet form of any of various Old Slavic personal names (for example, Lubomir, Luboslav, Lubogost) formed with lub- ‘love’, ‘Uking’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Luba is read(measured from records)
Luba is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English52%
lang., people, Africa
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
A female given name from Ukrainian [in turn from Slavic].
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Georgian12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Luba in Georgian.
- Polish11%
feminine nominative/vocative singular of luby
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish8.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Luba in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Luba 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | — | 4,199as Ljuba | 1 in 1K | 4.2K | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Luba | 19 |
| GE Georgia | #181 | 1,928as ლუბა | 1 in 2.1K | 1.9K | Luba | 19 |
| US United States | — | 1,880 | 1 in 177K | 1.9K | Luba | 230 |
| RO Romania | #860 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | לובה | 3 |
| IL Israel | #573 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | 469 | לובה | 31 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 383as Ljuba | 1 in 5.5K | 383 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | #869 | 148 | 1 in 13K | 148 | לובה | 8 |
4,199 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: CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Luba is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a pet form of any of various Old Slavic personal names (for example, Lubomir, Luboslav, Lubogost) formed with lub- ‘love’, ‘Uking’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In dsb, feminine nominative singular of luby
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, to stab using a knife, icepick, etc.
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)
- Luba Blum-Bielickab. 1906PLPolish-Jewish activist
- Luba Marksb. 1915FRFrench fashion designer
- Louba Guertchikoffb. 1919FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1919–1999)
- Luba Skořepováb. 1923CZCzech actress and writer (1923–2016)
- Luba Lisab. 1941USAmerican actress (1941-1972)
- Luba Goyb. 1945CACanadian actress and comedian
- Luba Jurgensonb. 1958FREstonian-French writer and school teacher
- Ľuba Orgonášováb. 1961SKsinger
- Luba Golovinab. 1990GEGeorgian trampoline gymnast
- Luba MasonUSAmerican actress, singer, dancer
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 61 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.9K | #7,887 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7 | #7,887 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 6 | #6,922 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 5 | #3,850 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 5 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 5 | #7,959 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Luba come from?
- from a pet form of any of various Old Slavic personal names (for example, Lubomir, Luboslav, Lubogost) formed with lub- ‘love’, ‘Uking’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Luba mean?
- In English, A female given name from Ukrainian [in turn from Slavic].
- Is Luba a male or female name?
- Luba 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 Luba?
- In the etymology graph, Ljuba, Lyuba and Libuše are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Lyubov.
- In which country does Luba have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Ljuba, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Luba most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Luba is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Luba?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,880 people named Luba in 2020, about 1 in 177 thousand residents.
- How common is Luba compared with other names?
- In Georgia, Luba is the 181st most common given name of 12,900 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, “Luba” — the 181st most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.