Love — #845 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Love

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,527 babies named Love between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Love currently holds the #845 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 386 babies received it in a single year. Love is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 967 additional births since 1882.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Love performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 1,585 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Love shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 498 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Love in 31 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Love in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,527 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.