Ljuba
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom., Kurzform von slawischen
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʎuba/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ljuba is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 named Люба, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
| 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 | 4,199 | 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 | — | 383 | 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)
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)
- Ljuba Welitschb. 1913BGBulgarian singer (1913-1996)
- Lyuba Enchevab. 1914BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian pianist
- Louba Guertchikoffb. 1919FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1919–1999)
- Ljuba Tadićb. 1929RSSerbian actor (1929–2005)
- Ljuba Manz-Lurjeb. 1940CHukrainian-born Swiss businesswoman
- Ljuba Kristolb. 1944ILIsraeli chess player
- Ljuba Krbováb. 1958CZCzech actress
- Luba Jurgensonb. 1958FRnot in their usual nameEstonian-French writer and school teacher
- Ljuba Brkićb. 1975RSSerbian musician
- Ljuba Baraninb. 1986RSfootballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 4.2K | #233 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 2.9K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 484 | #265 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 482 | #270 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 480 | #276 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 474 | #277 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 471 | #279 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 470 | #280 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 463 | #280 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 457 | #286 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 451 | #295 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 444 | #296 |
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.
- How do you pronounce Ljuba?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎuba/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ljubaThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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.