Entry № 5895 · Czech origin

Libuše Libuše — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LIB-oo-sheh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Czech
Meaning
"Legendary Czech founder-princess"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Czech)

A name that means "legendary czech founder-princess".

Libuše is the legendary Czech princess who founded the city of Prague — a prophetic seer who chose the ploughman Přemysl as her husband, founding the Přemyslid dynasty. Smetana's opera Libuše (1881) is the Czech national opera.

Libuše is widely used in the Czech Republic.

The Czech founder-princess of Prague.

The name in its native script.

Libuše
Transliteration
Libuše
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɪb.uː.ʃɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Libuše stands.

Libuše does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Libušes before her.

Real people
Libuše Šafránková
Czech actress.
1953 – 2021
In fiction
Libuše
Heroine of Smetana's opera.
1881 opera

Names connected to Libuše.

The number behind Libuše.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Libuše reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.