Lyuba
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lyuba is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Pet form of tyuzov.
- 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 Lyuba 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 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 named Люба, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
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 Liuba in MD Moldova, RO Romania.
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)
Pet form of tyuzov.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lyuba 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 | 6,883as Liuba | 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 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Liuba | 16 |
| 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lyuba Karagyulevab. 1894BGBulgarian educator and activist
- Lyuba Enchevab. 1914BGBulgarian pianist
- Lyuba Kolchakovab. 1927BGballerina
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lyuba mean, and where does it come from?
- Pet form of tyuzov. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Lyuba a male or female name?
- Lyuba 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 Lyuba?
- In the etymology graph, Luba, Liouba and Lyubochka are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Lyubov.
- In which country does Lyuba have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Люба in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Lyuba?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 6,883 people named Liuba, about 1 in 489 residents.
- How common is Lyuba compared with other names?
- In Russia, Lyuba is the 394th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lyubaThe 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, “Lyuba” — the 394th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.