Ľuba

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Ľubica

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

Ľuba is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 39K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 52K
  • SKSlovakia≈1 in 69K

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)

1,880 people, 2020

Sources
46 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Luba in US United States, CZ Czechia.

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)

a diminutive of the female given name Ľubica

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ľuba 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 Ľuba is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,8801 in 177K1.9KLuba46
PL Poland—9701 in 39K970——
BR Brazil—811 in 2.6M81——
SK Slovakia#670≈79 est.≈1 in 69K—Ľuba34
UY Uruguay—651 in 52K65——
CZ Czechia—581 in 185K58Luba23

1,880 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Ľuba is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hebrew given name40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Georgia, Argentina

    Languages: Hebrew, English, Georgian

    Also written Luba, לובה, ליובה, Lubah, ლუბა

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Lubá, Luba, L̕uba, Lûba, Lüba

  • Hungarian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary, Canada

    Also written Luba, Libad

3 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19001920194019601980Louba Guertchikoff, b. 1919Ľuba Pavlovičová-Baková, b. 1924Ľuba Vlasáková, b. 1933Ľuba Ballová-Králiková, b. 1934Ľuba Končeková-Veselá, b. 1942Ľuba Matejová, b. 1944Ľuba Bombová, b. 1948Ľuba Procházková, b. 1949Ľuba Lesná, b. 1954Ľuba Hanzušová, b. 1961

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 3 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Ľuba
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—58#1,801

Reference works 2

  • 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 Ľuba mean, and where does it come from?
a diminutive of the female given name Ľubica Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Ľuba a male or female name?
Ľuba 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 Ľuba?
In the etymology graph, Ljubica, Ljuba and Ljubinka are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Ľuba have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Ľuba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luba.
Where is Ľuba most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ľuba is densest in Poland — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ľuba?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,880 people named Ľuba in 2020, about 1 in 177 thousand residents.
How common is Ľuba compared with other names?
In Slovakia, Ľuba is the 670th most common given name of 9,943 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, “Ľuba” — the 670th most common given name in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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