Lovell
Lovell is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. Its best rank was 880th, in 1911.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 220.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191646 births
- Best rank
- #880in 1911
- Since 1886
- 4,030people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,398 boys have been named Lovell in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 46 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1950s alone account for 11%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Lovell is used for both sexes: 16% of its bearers are girls (632), most of them born around 1924.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Lovell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 22 | |
| 1900s | 47 | |
| 1910s | 280 | |
| 1920s | 372 | |
| 1930s | 352 | |
| 1940s | 367 | |
| 1950s | 374 | |
| 1960s | 309 | |
| 1970s | 315 | |
| 1980s | 231 | |
| 1990s | 253 | |
| 2000s | 187 | |
| 2010s | 178 | |
| 2020s | 105 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Lovell was the 946th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1916 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Lovell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elginpeak 1920
- Coypeak 1926
- Reynoldspeak 1923
- Franklynpeak 1933
- Raymondpeak 1924
- Collispeak 1952
- Prenticepeak 1939
- Cleonpeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.