Ljuba - Meaning of Ljuba

What does Ljuba mean?

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Ljuba

[ syll. lju-ba, lj-uba ] The baby girl name Ljuba is also used as a boy name. It is pronounced LYUWBAH †. Ljuba's language of origin is Slavonic and it is predominantly used in Slavic. It is derived from the word lub which is of the meaning 'love'. The name is often used in Serbian.

Forms of the name include the Slavic Libusa, the Slavic Ljubica, the Slavic Ljubinka, the Russian Lubov, and the Russian Lyubov.

Another form of Ljuba is the Slavic spelling variant Lyuba.

See also the related form, the German Lioba.

See also the related category slavic.

Ljuba is not commonly used as a baby girl name. It is not in the top 1000 names.

Baby names that sound like Ljuba include Lapis, Lapiss, Lapisse, Laufea, Laufeia, Laufeiya, Laufeya, Leiba, Lepa, Leva, Leyba, Libah, Lipa, Liva, Livya, Lopa, Lova, Lovejoy, Lovejoye, and Loviise.

† approx English pronunciation for Ljuba: L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; Y as in "you (Y.UW)" ; UW as in "two (T.UW)" ; B as in "be (B.IY)" ; AH as in "mud (M.AH.D)"