Lyubov
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From the Russian vocabulary word meaning ‘love’; vernacular equivalent of AGAFYA
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/liubɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lyubov is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common given name.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 72K
- UAUkraine≈1 in 80as Любов
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lyubov itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #67 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000,000 named Любовь, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Любовь in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more, Любов in UA Ukraine and Liubov in PL Poland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the Russian vocabulary word meaning ‘love’; vernacular equivalent of AGAFYA.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lyubov counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #31 | ≈1,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 140 | #16 | Любовь | 194 |
| UA Ukraine | #26 | ≈550,000 est. | ≈1 in 80 | listed | Любов | 70 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #31 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 290 | 4.7K | Любовь | 54 |
| PL Poland | — | 21,362as Liubov | 1 in 1.8K | 21K | Liubov | 36 |
| BY Belarus | #67 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 523 | 10 | Любовь | 33 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #54 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 496 | — | Любовь | 19 |
| US United States | — | 4,637 | 1 in 72K | 4.6K | Lyubov | 198 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Любовь | 15 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lyubov is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A transliteration of the Russian female given name Любовь (Ljubovʹ).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Russian: from the vocabulary word meaning ‘love’. It was originally adopted as a vernacular loan translation of Greek Agap (see AGAFYA ). See also LIB NA . Pet form: Lyuba .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lyubov Dostoevskayab. 1869RURussian writer and memoirist (1869–1926)
- Lyubov Egorovab. 1880FRRussian ballerina (1880–1972)
- Liubov Popovab. 1889RURussian artist (1889-1924)
- Lyubov Orlovab. 1902RUSoviet actress and singer (1900–1975)
- Lyubov Panchenkob. 1938UAUkrainian artist and fashion designer (1938–2022)
- Lyubov Polishchukb. 1949RUSoviet and Russian actress (1949-2006)
- Lyubov Yegorovab. 1966RURussian cross-country skier
- Lyubov Prigozhinab. 1970RUwife of Yevgeny Prigozhin
- Lyubov Sobolb. 1987RURussian political and public figure, lawyer (1987-)
- Lyubov Aksyonovab. 1990RURussian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.6K | #4,138 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.4K | #433 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 1.4K | #433 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 19 | #4,138 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #26,010 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #26,629 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2022 | 3 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lyubov mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Russian vocabulary word meaning ‘love’; vernacular equivalent of AGAFYA. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Lyubov?
- A machine transcription gives /liubɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- Is Lyubov a male or female name?
- Lyubov is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Lyubov?
- In the etymology graph, Luba, Lyuba and Liouba are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Lyubov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 million people named Любовь in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Lyubov?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,637 people named Lyubov in 2020, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.
- How common is Lyubov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Lyubov is the 31st most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lyubovThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lyubov” — the 31st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.