Liubou
A Slavic name meaning "love". Around 400 women in Poland carry it and almost no one gives it to newborns now, so meeting one is a small surprise.
Liubou Pronunciation
Liubou is pronounced lyoo-BO-oo (/ljuˈbɔu/).
What Liubou means
Where Liubou comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Liubou grew from Slavic soil, and its meaning is plain: love. The root behind it, the old Slavic *ljuby, gave the Slavic languages their word for love and for what is dear, and the name takes that word directly rather than dressing it in metaphor.
Some names mean love by association. This one means it at the source.
A child called Liubou wears a common noun as a proper one. On a school register the name sits among the others, and only later might a reader notice that it is simply the word for love, made into a person. There is no legend bolted on, no saint required to explain it. The meaning was there before any story.
In Polish the sense is miłość, the same idea reached by a different road. To read Liubou is to read love spelled as a name.
How many people are named Liubou
1 in 53548 women in Poland is named Liubou. 421 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1449 among female names.