Given name
Lyubov
“love”
Lyubov is a feminine given name from Russian, meaning “love.”
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lyubov through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 26
- 0 boys · 26 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 6 in 2002. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,637 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lyubov’s family of names
Lyubov has an affectionate form in Lyuba. Lyubov has a conventional naming counterpart in Liběna. In English usage, Lyubov has a conventional equivalent in the Ukrainian form Любов.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Lyubov
- Lyubov OrlovaSoviet actress and singer (1900–1975)1902–1975
- Lyubov PopovaRussian artist (1889-1924)
- Lyubov SobolRussian political and public figure, lawyer (1987-)
- Lyubov YegorovaRussian cross-country skierborn 1966
- Lyubov KozyrevaRussian cross-country skier1929–2015
- Lyubov BruletovaRussian judokaborn 1973
- Lyubov ShutovaRussian fencerborn 1983
- Lyubov AksyonovaRussian actressborn 1990
- Lyubov PolishchukSoviet and Russian actress (1949-2006)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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