Lovell — #4565 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Lovell

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,398 babies named Lovell between 1886 and 2024, spanning 139 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lovell currently holds the #4565 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 46 babies received it in a single year. Lovell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 632 additional births since 1901.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lovell performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 374 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Lovell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 360 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Lovell in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lovell 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 3,398 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.