Ljubica

Ljubica (Љубица and 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 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