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Ottilie's post on Petrova sparked my memory about a phase I went through where I liked artist's surnames as first names. One of my favourites was Popova, for the artist Lyubov Popova. At the time, I thought Popova was prettier than Lyubov, but now I'm much more interested in Lyubov. It makes me think of chunky, cubist rainbows (I think because the structure of Lyubov reminds me of the "Roygbiv" trick to remembering the colour sequence in rainbows) and friendly robots. So that's pretty fun.

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Liouba is a Russian variant of Lyubov that I think might be more user-friendly in a non-Slavic country. I like Liouba quite a lot as well.

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Which do you prefer: Lyubov, or Liouba? What are your thoughts on them?
Combo ideas?