We all carry names, nick names, some of us even pseudonyms, but what is the real meaning of some name, how it changed culturally, historically and linguistically, last but not the least why your parents chose that particular name and not some other, what numerology and phonetics have to say about your name, all these guestions are pretty interesting and when I commenced to dig about my own name and than about names of my family and friends I came to pretty peculiar information.
My name is Ljubica, I checked on: http://www.behindthename.com/name/ljubica, and this is what I found:
LJUBICA (pronounced as LYUWBihKah), approx English pronunciation for Ljubica: L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; Y as in "yield (Y.IY.L.D)" ; UW as in "two (T.UW)" ; B as in "be (B.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Russian (Ljuba), Dalmatian (Juba, Jubica), English (Violet), Italian, Latin (Violeta), ProtoSlavic: Ljuba, Liubica, Liubyca
From the Slavic element lyub meaning "love" or "kiss", where -ica is a diminutive suffix. Also, Ljubica means violet, while the actual flower is Ljubičica, a superdiminutive. It is Serbian-Croatian, Macedonian, Monetnegrin, Bosnian in origin, used throughout the former Yugoslavia.
Lyubitsa is the Bulgarian variant.
Ljuba or Liuba or Luba is Russian variant.
Ľubica is the Slovak variant.
Ljubomir, Ljubiša or Ljubo is male variant of the same name in Ex Yugoslavia
Names that sound like Ljubica include the Slavic Libusa, the Scandinavian Lovisa, and the Scandinavian Lovise. Hm-mm, I live in Loviste, what a coincidence, although Lovište in Croatian language have different meaning.
Ha, I was surprised when I found this on: http://birthvillage.com/baby-name.php?name=Ljubica
Numerological Meaning (For Entertainment Purposes Only)
People with this name tend to be very logical thinkers. It is very important for them to have a rigid routine. Many of their actions are quite calculated and thought out. Professionally, they can be successful as an Administrator, team player, or small business owner.
Well, I don't know about rigid routine and any kind of calculations but OK it's for entertainment purposes.
On: http://www.pokemyname.com/firstname_47515_ljubica.htm
I found this:
LJUBICA is the most popular 16396.th name in USA (... 16394.abdulilah , 16395.pranjivan , 16396.ljubica , 16397.riddell , 16398.mckean ...). One in every 234,068 Americans is named LJUBICA and popularity of name LJUBICA is 4.27 people per million.
If we compare the popularity statistics of LJUBICA to USA's population statistics, we can estimate that as of December.04.2010 04:35 there are 1,328 people named as LJUBICA in the United States and the number is increasing by 11 people every year.
Usage of ljubica as a first name is extremely more common than its usage as a middle name. The sum of alphabetical order of letters in LJUBICA is 58 and this makes LJUBICA arithmetic buddies with words like Credible, Adorable, Ethical, Star, Tidy, Fragile.
The Violet flower or Ljubičica or Ljubica on Serb Croatian is connected with: Modesty, faithfulness, innocence, understated beauty. Worn by the ancient Greeks to induce sleep and to calm tempers. Associated with the fifieth wedding anniversary. Also known as the birthflower of February
Now something intriguing:
Dr. Konstantin Korotkov who studied Kirlian's techniques and advanced them to the next level of recording auras, made interesting experiment of: "sending love" mentally, from one person in love to other person in love, the photos made by Korotkov show that aura of people in love with "love" energy they sending to eachother is of violet color, now wait, ancient Slavs knew about color of love, and it's Violet not red, after all how could they associate Violet, Ljubica, Ljuba or LOVE=LJUBAV on Croatian Serbian, to the feeling of love if they did not know the true color of Love (BTW red is color of anger, not love, so if you buying all these red hearts for Valentines you might send wrong subliminal messages to person you love, start making violet hearts
) (Photo of love sending attached).
Well that was more than enough about Ljubica, my husband's name is Zoran.
ZORAN (z(o)-ra-n)
Gender: Male
Usage: Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, proto Slavic: Zorjan, Zoryan, Zorran
Other Scripts: Зораn or Зоран (Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian)
From a South and West Slavic word meaning "dawn, aurora"Of the dawn, rise of sun, daybreak, a. handsome, a. well-made also from verb zoran: exemplary (archaic Slavic)
Multiple Variations in different languages both male and female: Zorica, Zora, Zorana, Zore, Zorin, Zorina (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian), Aurora, Aurelio, Auroro, Mauro, Maurice, Maura, Zahra, Zohra, Zohar, Zoryana, Zoreen, Zoharan, Zorine also Eja or Eos (Ἠώς, Êốs) in Greek mythology goddess of the down and daybreak colors, daughter of Titan Hyperion and his wife Tia, pandan to Latin goddess Aurora and the light they bring is rhododactylos, or rose color, Eja or Eos name comes from the *hwews- = "shining", together with Êốs i αὔριον, aurion = "tomorrow", or aushra = "zora" te áuksas = "gold", in daybreak lat. aurôra = "zora" i aurum = "gold", in Archaic Indo European languages = "istok" (engl. east, German. Ost, Lat. Este, D'este, Levante, Levantino)
OK, that was more less all I could find about our names, I wonder if we were attracted by our names via our parents or names were attracted to us on some still unknown way, after all, words have powers, meanings as well, it would be great to know if the name we are living with define us in all what we do and how we live, according to numerology; names & DOB are one of most important information that define us all. Well, what you know about your name or name of your parents, friends, love ones, check out, search, learn, after all learning should be fun.
Nomen est omen :)
My name is Ljubica, I checked on: http://www.behindthename.com/name/ljubica, and this is what I found:
LJUBICA (pronounced as LYUWBihKah), approx English pronunciation for Ljubica: L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; Y as in "yield (Y.IY.L.D)" ; UW as in "two (T.UW)" ; B as in "be (B.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Russian (Ljuba), Dalmatian (Juba, Jubica), English (Violet), Italian, Latin (Violeta), ProtoSlavic: Ljuba, Liubica, Liubyca
From the Slavic element lyub meaning "love" or "kiss", where -ica is a diminutive suffix. Also, Ljubica means violet, while the actual flower is Ljubičica, a superdiminutive. It is Serbian-Croatian, Macedonian, Monetnegrin, Bosnian in origin, used throughout the former Yugoslavia.
Lyubitsa is the Bulgarian variant.
Ljuba or Liuba or Luba is Russian variant.
Ľubica is the Slovak variant.
Ljubomir, Ljubiša or Ljubo is male variant of the same name in Ex Yugoslavia
Names that sound like Ljubica include the Slavic Libusa, the Scandinavian Lovisa, and the Scandinavian Lovise. Hm-mm, I live in Loviste, what a coincidence, although Lovište in Croatian language have different meaning.
Ha, I was surprised when I found this on: http://birthvillage.com/baby-name.php?name=Ljubica
Numerological Meaning (For Entertainment Purposes Only)
People with this name tend to be very logical thinkers. It is very important for them to have a rigid routine. Many of their actions are quite calculated and thought out. Professionally, they can be successful as an Administrator, team player, or small business owner.
Well, I don't know about rigid routine and any kind of calculations but OK it's for entertainment purposes.
On: http://www.pokemyname.com/firstname_47515_ljubica.htm
I found this:
LJUBICA is the most popular 16396.th name in USA (... 16394.abdulilah , 16395.pranjivan , 16396.ljubica , 16397.riddell , 16398.mckean ...). One in every 234,068 Americans is named LJUBICA and popularity of name LJUBICA is 4.27 people per million.
If we compare the popularity statistics of LJUBICA to USA's population statistics, we can estimate that as of December.04.2010 04:35 there are 1,328 people named as LJUBICA in the United States and the number is increasing by 11 people every year.
Usage of ljubica as a first name is extremely more common than its usage as a middle name. The sum of alphabetical order of letters in LJUBICA is 58 and this makes LJUBICA arithmetic buddies with words like Credible, Adorable, Ethical, Star, Tidy, Fragile.
The Violet flower or Ljubičica or Ljubica on Serb Croatian is connected with: Modesty, faithfulness, innocence, understated beauty. Worn by the ancient Greeks to induce sleep and to calm tempers. Associated with the fifieth wedding anniversary. Also known as the birthflower of February
Now something intriguing:
Dr. Konstantin Korotkov who studied Kirlian's techniques and advanced them to the next level of recording auras, made interesting experiment of: "sending love" mentally, from one person in love to other person in love, the photos made by Korotkov show that aura of people in love with "love" energy they sending to eachother is of violet color, now wait, ancient Slavs knew about color of love, and it's Violet not red, after all how could they associate Violet, Ljubica, Ljuba or LOVE=LJUBAV on Croatian Serbian, to the feeling of love if they did not know the true color of Love (BTW red is color of anger, not love, so if you buying all these red hearts for Valentines you might send wrong subliminal messages to person you love, start making violet hearts

Well that was more than enough about Ljubica, my husband's name is Zoran.
ZORAN (z(o)-ra-n)
Gender: Male
Usage: Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, proto Slavic: Zorjan, Zoryan, Zorran
Other Scripts: Зораn or Зоран (Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian)
From a South and West Slavic word meaning "dawn, aurora"Of the dawn, rise of sun, daybreak, a. handsome, a. well-made also from verb zoran: exemplary (archaic Slavic)
Multiple Variations in different languages both male and female: Zorica, Zora, Zorana, Zore, Zorin, Zorina (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian), Aurora, Aurelio, Auroro, Mauro, Maurice, Maura, Zahra, Zohra, Zohar, Zoryana, Zoreen, Zoharan, Zorine also Eja or Eos (Ἠώς, Êốs) in Greek mythology goddess of the down and daybreak colors, daughter of Titan Hyperion and his wife Tia, pandan to Latin goddess Aurora and the light they bring is rhododactylos, or rose color, Eja or Eos name comes from the *hwews- = "shining", together with Êốs i αὔριον, aurion = "tomorrow", or aushra = "zora" te áuksas = "gold", in daybreak lat. aurôra = "zora" i aurum = "gold", in Archaic Indo European languages = "istok" (engl. east, German. Ost, Lat. Este, D'este, Levante, Levantino)
OK, that was more less all I could find about our names, I wonder if we were attracted by our names via our parents or names were attracted to us on some still unknown way, after all, words have powers, meanings as well, it would be great to know if the name we are living with define us in all what we do and how we live, according to numerology; names & DOB are one of most important information that define us all. Well, what you know about your name or name of your parents, friends, love ones, check out, search, learn, after all learning should be fun.
Nomen est omen :)