Ljubica

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| gender = female

| meaning = l'ub (love)

| region = Slavic

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| nickname = Ljuba

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Ljubica ({{lang-sr-cyr|Љубица}} and {{langx|mk|Љубица}}) is a Slavic feminine given name meaning "love" or "kiss", where -ica is a diminutive suffix. Also, ljubica means violet, while the actual flower is ljubičica, a superdiminutive. It is Serbo-Croatian in origin, used throughout the former Yugoslavia.

Variants

Bulgarian: Lyubitsa, Любица
Slovak: Ľubica

Notable people

Ljubica Acevska (born 1957), Macedonian diplomat
Ljubica Čakarević (1894–1980), Serbian combatant
Ljubica Drljača (born 1978), Serbian basketball coach and player
Ljubica Ivošević Dimitrov (1884–1933), Serbian-Bulgarian textile worker, activist, newspaper editor and poet
Ljubica Janković (1894–1974), Serbian ethnomusicologist
Ljubica Jelušič (born 1960), Slovenian politician
Ljubica Jembrih (born 1974), Croatian politician
Ljubica Luković (1858–1915), Serbian nurse, social worker, teacher and translator
Ljubica Marić (1909–2003), Serbian composer
Ljubica Mrdaković Todorović (born 1962), Serbian doctor and politician
Ljubica Nenezić (born 1997), Montenegrin handball player
Ljubica Ostojić (1945–2021), Bosnian poet, writer and playwright
Ljubica Otašević (1933–1998), Serbian actress, body double and basketball player
Ljubica Sokić (1914–2009), Serbian painter
Ljubica Štefan (1921–2002), Croatian historian
Ljubica Vukomanović (1788–1843), Serbian Princess consort
Ljubica Živković (1936–2017), Serbian chess player

Ljubica

Variants

Notable people

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