Surname Ljuba in modern Croatia

Ljuba families are Croats and they are mostly from Sibenik. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sibenik and Split.

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Ljuba live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Solin (15), Primorski Dolac in Trogir area (15), Split (<10), Varazdin (<10), and in Sibenik (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Ljuba (including: Lyuba , Liuba ) is present in 35 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Đorđe Ljuba, Mirjana Ljuba, Alen Ljuba, Anita Ljuba, Mladen Ljuba, Goran Ljuba, Milan Ljuba, Marija Ljuba, Antonio Ljuba, Tonći Ljuba, Ante Ljuba, Matilda Ljuba, Srečko Ljuba, Milica Ljuba, Tomislav Ljuba, Marijo Ljuba, Mirko Ljuba, Fedor Ljuba, Zdenko Ljuba

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over a hundred times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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