Lovella
Lovella was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,417 among girls’ names; 1,735 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lovella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lovella?
#4,417 among girls’ names, 2025
Lovella rose from #7,466 in 2015 to #4,417 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 19.9 per million.
39 babies in 1920, the peak
Lovella peaked in 1920, when 39 girls were given it, #1,238 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,417 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,088 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,938 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,405 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,863 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,763 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,587 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,258 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,949 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,197 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,466 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,918 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,236 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,242 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,945 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,900 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,376 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,496 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,887 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,793 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,639 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,379 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,788 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,061 | 5.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,135 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,745 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,232 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,608 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,989 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,731 | 5.9 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,110 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,130 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,370 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,574 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,239 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,372 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,001 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,157 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,923 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,409 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,637 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,734 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,484 | 10.9 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,829 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,813 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,049 | 7.7 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,657 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,760 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,627 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,645 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,726 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,096 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,556 | 9.4 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,408 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,059 | 13.4 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,026 | 13.8 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,641 | 19.6 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,872 | 15.8 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,838 | 16.3 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,853 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,823 | 17.5 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,845 | 17.3 |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,300 | 29.0 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,882 | 16.9 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,336 | 28.8 |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,530 | 22.9 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,466 | 24.9 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,753 | 19.8 |
| 1932 | 32 | #1,310 | 30.0 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,479 | 24.4 |
| 1930 | 38 | #1,223 | 33.7 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,742 | 19.7 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,938 | 17.3 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,751 | 20.1 |
| 1926 | 35 | #1,346 | 29.5 |
| 1925 | 27 | #1,630 | 22.2 |
| 1924 | 35 | #1,393 | 28.0 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,232 | 14.1 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,489 | 25.8 |
| 1921 | 34 | #1,392 | 27.6 |
| 1920 | 39 | #1,238 | 32.5 |
| 1919 | 33 | #1,359 | 29.2 |
| 1918 | 27 | #1,555 | 23.3 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,813 | 18.5 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,511 | 23.9 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,550 | 23.4 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,076 | 15.8 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,725 | 20.8 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,678 | 21.5 |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,212 | 35.9 |
| 1910 | 15 | #1,192 | 37.8 |
| 1909 | 17 | #1,007 | 49.0 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,623 | 23.9 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,277 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,826 | 20.6 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,517 | 26.7 |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,105 | 41.7 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,415 | 29.2 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,514 | 26.7 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,690 | 21.3 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,505 | 25.2 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,393 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lovella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lovella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 102 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lovella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lovella, and how old are they?
An estimated 822 Americans named Lovella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (47% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 9 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 753 people named Lovella (751 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 786 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,500 babies since 1880, Lovella is the second most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 134 babies (24%), again the second most given.
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 Lovella
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 Lovella and names like it
- Compare Lovella and LovelyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLovella peaked in 1920.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lovella since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Lovella.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lovella alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.