Lubov
A Slavic name that simply means "love". In Poland it stays rare: around 360 women carry it, most of them from an older generation, and no girls have been given it in recent years.
Lubov Pronunciation
What Lubov means
Where Lubov comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lubov grows straight out of the Slavic word for love. There is no foreign root to unpack, nothing borrowed from Latin or Greek. The name means love, and in Polish that is miłość.
It belongs mostly to Russian and Ukrainian tradition, where people write it Любовь. An old Christian legend travels with it. In the story of Saint Sophia, three daughters were named Faith, Hope, and Love, and Lubov is the third of them, the one who is love itself.
Because the meaning sits so close to the surface, the name never hides what it says. A teacher reading a class register in Kraków would still catch the plain sense of it, even without any Russian. Lubov gives no diminutive to soften it and no variant to disguise it. What you are left holding is the bare Slavic word for love, miłość.
How many people are named Lubov
1 in 61934 women in Poland is named Lubov. 364 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1570 among female names.
Lubov as a middle name
Lubov is a first name for 364 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2800th, between Lordes (8) and Lucile (8).
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#2798 Lizelota8
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#2799 Lordes8
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#2800 Lubov8
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#2801 Lucile8
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#2802 Ludmira8