Lyubov

Girls' name

Love

Lyubov has been given to 26 babies in the U.S. since 1993. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2002, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Lyubov, 2006

1 in 791,000

Lyubov over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lyubov: meaning, origin, and history

Love

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lyubov means

Lyubov means “love”, associated with ljubovʹ.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Russian Любовь (Ljubovʹ), from любовь (ljubovʹ, “love”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Lyubov (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Lyubov is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Любовь.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 26 girls were recorded with the name Lyubov between 1993 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2002; its best national rank was #14,686 in 2002.

How common is Lyubov?

Lyubov had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006: 1 in 791,000; 5 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only: 1 in 380,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 548,442 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lyubov sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lyubov. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lyubovs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lyubov was born before 2002 — so the typical Lyubov is around 23 today.

Median birth year: 2002; About 23 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 61.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 26; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 61.5% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Lyubov rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2002 (6)
Years since peak: 23; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #14,686; 2002

Lyubov around the world

Where Lyubov ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2011–2011
#5,785
in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Lyubov by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #14,686; 2002
Peak year: 2002; 6 that year
First recorded: 1993
Last recorded: 2006
All-time count: 26
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Lyubov

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Lyudmila Lubov

Sibling names for Lyubov

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Iyana Alize Vanesa Shakira Kaiya Shreya Anastacia Delanie

For a brother

Dallin Zakary Keyon Kelton Donavan Alexandre Jaylon Jaylin

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