Lubow
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1 . Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from Lubowo in Lithuania
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɫuboʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lubow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 953K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 175K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 354K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)
349 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lübow in DE Germany.
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)- Lubowoin(measured from records)
- Slavic‘love’(measured from records)
1 . Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from Lubowo in Lithuania. 2. Shortened form of various eastern Ashkenazic Jewish surnames, as for example Lubowitz, a metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Lube, from Slavic ‘love’, or Lubowski, a habitational name (see 1 above).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lubow 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 349 | 1 in 953K | 350 | Lubow | 166 |
| DE Germany | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Lübow | 42 |
| CA Canada | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Lubow | 7 |
| IT Italy | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Lubow | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Lubow | 7 |
| BE Belgium | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 523K | — | Lubow | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 354K | — | Lubow | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 175K | listed | — | 1 |
349 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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)- Dominique Lubowb. 1947FRFrench politician
- Arthur Lubowb. 1952USAmerican journalist and biographer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 350 | #55,003 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 349 | #58,182 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 337 | #63,879 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
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 Lubow come from?
- 1 . Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from Lubowo in Lithuania. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lubow?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫuboʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Lubow mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1 . Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from Lubowo in Lithuania.
- In which country does Lubow have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 349 people named Lubow, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lubow.
- How common is the name Lubow?
- In the United States, the national register counted 349 people named Lubow in 2010, about 1 in 953 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lubowThe 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, “Lubow”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.