Lova
Lova was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 426 Americans have been recorded with it between 1888 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lova by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lova mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Lova is “a female given name”
Short form of Lovisa. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1860.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lova?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,967, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1920, the peak
Lova peaked in 1920, when 18 girls were given it, #2,131 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #9,967 | 6.2 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,283 | 3.1 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,350 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,949 | 3.6 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,164 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,688 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,763 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,754 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,953 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,556 | 6.0 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 10 | #3,172 | 7.2 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,222 | 5.0 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,368 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,080 | 8.2 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,964 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,327 | 7.6 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,850 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,591 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,312 | 13.1 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,164 | 14.1 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,222 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,144 | 14.3 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,622 | 6.9 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,634 | 10.9 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,422 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,868 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,898 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,836 | 9.9 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,692 | 10.8 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,718 | 10.5 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,131 | 15.0 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,655 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,603 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,986 | 9.2 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,321 | 13.4 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,325 | 13.2 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,358 | 13.1 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,043 | 9.6 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,921 | 17.9 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,092 | 16.7 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,545 | 25.9 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,857 | 20.3 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,106 | 17.1 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,515 | 26.7 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,299 | 31.4 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,392 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lova a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lova has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lova: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lova, and how old are they?
An estimated 77 Americans named Lova and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 210 people named Lova (204 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 103 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 13,794 babies since 1880, Lova is the fourth most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 349 babies recorded by SSA was a Lova (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lova
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lova and names like it
- Compare Lova and LovieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLova peaked in 1920.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Lova: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Lova.
- Names starting with LMost given first.