Ljubica families are Croats and they are mostly from Split. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Trogir.
Prevalence
About 110 people with faimily name Ljubica live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent. They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and 6 other places, mostly in Split (50), Slatine (35), Okrug Gornji on the Island of Ciovo (10), Pula (<5), and in Podstrana in Solin area (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Ljubica is present in 11 countries on three continents.
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.