Ljubica

Ljubica ( and ) 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 IvoÅ¡ević Dimitrov (1884–1933), Serbian-Bulgarian textile worker, activist, newspaper editor and poet
• Ljubica Janković (1894–1974), Serbian ethnomusicologist
• Ljubica JeluÅ¡ič (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 OtaÅ¡ević (1933–1998), Serbian actress, body double and basketball player
• Ljubica Sokić (1914–2009), Serbian painter
• Ljubica Å tefan (1921–2002), Croatian historian
• Ljubica Vukomanović (1788–1843), Serbian Princess consort
• Ljubica Živković (1936–2017), Serbian chess player

See also

• Ljuba (name)
• Ljubomir (given name)