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Love

#957 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Love has been given to 5,785 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #957 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 386 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% girls, 17% boys all-time.

Babies named Love, 2025

1 in 12,300

Love over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Love over time

In 2025, Love went to 93% girls and 7% boys.

18802025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Love: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

English

What Love means

Love has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Love

A separate documented entry treats Love as a form of Louis. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Love is used in English, Cebuano, Swedish and Tagalog. Its origins include English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lova.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Swedish, Love is pronounced /ˈluːvɛ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,797 girls were recorded with the name Love between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 386 in 2022; its best national rank was #732 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,026 in 2020 to #957 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,837 in 2015 to #957 in 2025.

In the United States, 988 boys were recorded with the name Love between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2022; its best national rank was #585 in 1890.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,164 in 2020 to #4,803 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,827 in 2015 to #4,803 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Love?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,300
269 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,970
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#957
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,544 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Love sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,544 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Love. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Loves were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Love was born before 2015 — so the typical Love is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
38.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,248
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 38.6% of all recorded uses (1,854).

Is Love rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−108
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+69
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+880
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.7%
Peak was 2022 (386)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#732
2023

Spellings of Love

Love is not the most common spelling — Rose is, with 24.3% against Love's 0.23%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Love is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Love was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 3,571 girls, against 1 in 6,663 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

228 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 3,571
  2. 2Nevada1 in 3,704
  3. 3Georgia1 in 4,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 5,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 5,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 5,000
  7. 7California1 in 5,263
  8. 8Arizona1 in 5,882

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Where Love is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Love was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 518,859 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Love has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Love around the world

Where Love ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • France
    1985–2025
    #1,856
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #1,615
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Love

People whose public names include Love, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Love in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Love. Linked forms have their own page here.

LovaLoweLouisLovelaceLoïcLoeizLovre

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Love by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#957
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 69
Best rank ever
#732
2023
Peak year
2022
386 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,797
Count in 2025
269

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,803
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,361
Best rank ever
#585
1890
Peak year
2022
32 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
988
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Love

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LovieLovinaLovelyDoveLoveyLovellaCoveLovaLovettaToveLoveahLovelynKoveLovellLovenaLoveniaLovetaLovelleLovisaLoveleeLovetteLovelynnLoveeLoveda

Names with a curve like Love

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Love, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

GuinevereSolKeilaniAuraNoahTaytumPersephoneLeilanyCapriAilaEzraIvey

Sibling names for Love

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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