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 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
See also
Ljuba (name) Ljubomir (given name)