Luba

Where Luba comes from

From Slavic * (English-language female given name found in Canada): From Ukrainian Люба (Ljuba)
— Wiktionary's entry for Luba
  • Ukrainian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,979 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1952
    Peak, #2,126
    23 babies named Luba — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1960
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,184.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ukrainian [in turn from Slavic].
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.