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Lovell

boys’ name · 84%girls’ name · 16%SteadyCompare

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
Babies named Lovell, by year of birthboysgirls
01325385018801900192019401960198020002020

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

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Lovell
1880s6
1890s22
1900s47
1910s280
1920s372
1930s352
1940s367
1950s374
1960s309
1970s315
1980s231
1990s253
2000s187
2010s178
2020s105

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.

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.