Luba
Just over a thousand women in Poland carry it, so meeting one sticks with you, and no newborns took it last year. A Slavic name at root: luba means "dear", the loved one.
Luba Pronunciation
Luba is pronounced LOO-bah (/ˈluba/).
What Luba means
Where Luba comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Luba grows from a Slavic root, lyub, the element behind words for love in Russian and Ukrainian speech. The short meaning holds to that source: dear, beloved. The sense is plain.
The fuller form is Lubow, a variant from the same family. Where many names lean on a long official version and shorten it for warmth, Luba begins short and stays there, close to the word for love itself. In the Orthodox calendar the related Lyubov stands among three sister saints, Faith, Hope, and Love, and Luba runs close to that Lyubov.
On a Polish class register the name reads as compact, four letters and done. It belongs to Russian and Ukrainian tradition more than Polish, which gives it a slightly borrowed sound west of the border. The root travels well. A Luba anywhere answers to the same plain meaning: dear, beloved.
How many people are named Luba
1 in 22145 women in Poland is named Luba. 1,018 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #954 among female names.
Luba's popularity over time
0 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Luba as a middle name
Luba is a first name for 1,018 women in Poland and a middle name for another 105, a 91/9 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 652nd, between Erwina (105) and Mai (105).
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105Chantal
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105Erwina
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652105Luba
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653
105Mai
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104Luise