Lubow
From a Slavic root meaning "love", still used in Russian and Ukrainian. Only about 360 women in Poland carry it and none were born last year, so most Poles have never met one.
Lubow Pronunciation
Lubow is pronounced LOO-bof (/ˈlubɔf/).
What Lubow means
Where Lubow comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lubow grows from a Slavic root that means love, miłość in Polish. The same root lives in ordinary Polish words: luby, meaning dear or beloved, and the everyday verb lubić, to like. So the name reads as foreign to a Polish ear, tied as it is to Russia and Ukraine, while its root sits close to hand.
In those traditions Lubow is more often written Lyubov. It belongs to a trio of sisters from Christian legend, daughters of a woman called Sofia. The other two are Vera and Nadezhda, faith and hope. Lubow is love, the third of them. The virtue reached the name through this story rather than from the sound alone.
The short form is Luba, softer and quick to call. A teacher going down a class register might reach Luba and pause, unsure of the fuller name standing behind it. Either way the meaning holds: love.
How many people are named Lubow
1 in 62622 women in Poland is named Lubow. 360 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1576 among female names.
Lubow as a middle name
Lubow is a first name for 360 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2300th, between Lija (11) and Maksymilia (11).
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#2298 Liceth11
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#2299 Lija11
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#2300 Lubow11
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#2301 Maksymilia11
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#2302 Mariama11