Ljuba

given name · Latin script

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

Ljuba is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., Kurzform von slawischen.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 1K(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 Ljuba 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)

≈11,000 named Люба, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
133 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LjubaLatin(measured from records)
ЛюбаCyrillic(measured from records)
ლიუბაGeorgian(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Люба in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus, Liuba in MD Moldova 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(measured from records)

weibl. Vom., Kurzform von slawischen

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ljuba 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 Ljuba is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#394≈11,000 est.≈1 in 13K#158Люба133
MD Moldova#1476,883as Liuba1 in 4896.9KLiuba22
UA Ukraine#261≈4,300 est.≈1 in 10K—Люба40
HR Croatia#1554,1991 in 1K4.2KLjuba26
BG Bulgaria#386≈2,900 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Lyuba54
BY Belarus#237≈1,800 est.≈1 in 5.3K5Люба14
SI Slovenia—3831 in 5.5K383Ljuba6

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ljuba is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Ljůba

  • English given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Lyuba

34 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ljuba is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Amore

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

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)

190019201940196019802000Ljuba Welitsch, b. 1913Lyuba Encheva, b. 1914Louba Guertchikoff, b. 1919Ljuba Tadić, b. 1929Ljuba Manz-Lurje, b. 1940Ljuba Kristol, b. 1944Ljuba Krbová, b. 1958Luba Jurgenson, b. 1958Ljuba Brkić, b. 1975Ljuba Baranin, b. 1986

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 32 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Ljuba
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202189—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Ljuba mean, and where does it come from?
weibl. Vom., Kurzform von slawischen Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
What are other forms of the name Ljuba?
In the etymology graph, Luba, Ljubinka and Ļubova are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Ljubica.
Is Ljuba a male or female name?
Ljuba 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 Ljuba have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Люба in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ljuba most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ljuba is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 1.0 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ljuba?
In Croatia, the national register counted 4,199 people named Ljuba in 2021, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
How common is Ljuba compared with other names?
In Russia, Ljuba is the 394th most common given name of 472,143 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, “Ljuba” — the 394th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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