Liba
Down to 14 women in Poland, and no girl has been given it this century: most Poles have never met a Liba. The name has Hebrew roots and a Yiddish sense of "love".
Liba Pronunciation
Liba is pronounced LEE-bah (/ˈliba/).
What Liba means
Where Liba comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Liba comes from Yiddish, from the word libe, meaning love. Its home is Jewish naming, and name references trace its deeper origin to Hebrew. The sound sits close to German Liebe, a cognate that means love and dearness. Same word-root, same idea.
In Hebrew the neighboring name is Ahuva, "beloved," a different word that lands on the same feeling. Liba keeps its meaning without help. It has no diminutive, no cross-gender pair, no softened Polish variant to lean on.
On a Polish class register, Liba reads short beside a Zofia or a Katarzyna. A teacher checking the imieniny calendar finds nothing, because Polish sources give no confirmed meaning for the name. So the Yiddish reading is the one that holds. Liba is love.
When Liba celebrates name day
Liba appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 15 June.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Liba
1 in 1610274 women in Poland is named Liba. 14 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12780 among female names.
Liba as a middle name
Liba is a first name for 14 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 74/26 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3702nd, between Liat (5) and Liberta (5).
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#3700 Letícia5
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#3701 Liat5
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#3702 Liba5
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#3703 Liberta5
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#3704 Libi5