Lovely
Lovely was given to 83 girls in 2025, #2,228 among girls’ names; 2,397 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,250 Americans named Lovely and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lovely by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lovely mean?
Wiktionary, Tagalog section
Lovely is “a female given name from English”
Borrowed from English Lovely.
/ˈlavli/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Tagalog section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lovely?
#2,228 among girls’ names, 2025
Lovely rose from #2,606 in 2015 to #2,228 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 38.7 to 51.6 per million.
104 babies in 2023, the peak
Lovely peaked in 2023, when 104 girls were given it, #1,915 among girls’ names. The 83 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,228 | 51.6 |
| 2024 | 92 | #2,091 | 56.8 |
| 2023 | 104 | #1,915 | 64.8 |
| 2022 | 95 | #2,043 | 57.9 |
| 2021 | 77 | #2,358 | 46.9 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,459 | 43.9 |
| 2019 | 91 | #2,085 | 54.2 |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,452 | 42.9 |
| 2017 | 72 | #2,500 | 41.7 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,818 | 34.4 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 69 | #2,606 | 38.7 |
| 2014 | 82 | #2,282 | 45.9 |
| 2013 | 71 | #2,522 | 40.5 |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,303 | 46.6 |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,035 | 31.8 |
| 2010 | 84 | #2,282 | 47.3 |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,260 | 47.4 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,560 | 24.3 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,758 | 22.4 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,829 | 21.0 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,388 | 24.4 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,052 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,158 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,497 | 21.7 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,152 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,623 | 19.8 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,544 | 19.7 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,535 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,314 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,003 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,343 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,957 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,346 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,387 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,101 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,790 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,791 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,965 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,786 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,709 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,564 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,634 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,661 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,838 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,641 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,649 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,976 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,852 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,809 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,990 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,725 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,808 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,030 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,111 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,240 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,284 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,148 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,002 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,953 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,199 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,830 | 5.4 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,941 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,327 | 4.3 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,561 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,097 | 7.0 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,200 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,384 | 3.2 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,972 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,032 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,760 | 4.4 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,126 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,652 | 6.6 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,027 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,592 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,806 | 4.7 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,764 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,257 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,862 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,384 | 4.1 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,870 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,706 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,656 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,603 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lovely a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lovely has been given almost only to girls: 12 boys in 85 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lovely: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lovely, and how old are they?
2,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 2,397 Americans ever recorded as Lovely. The median Lovely alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,538 people named Lovely (2,485 women and girls, 53 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,774 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 71 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 104 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 282 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 742 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,040 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Lovely born?
The states with the most babies named Lovely are Texas, California and Ohio, with 70% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #2,318 | 0.7× |
| California | 7 | #2,665 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,224 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,357 | 1.1× |
| New York | 5 | #2,273 | 0.3× |
Where Lovely is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lovely is most over-represented in Florida: since 1917 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lovely with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,500 babies since 1880, Lovely is the most given (53% of them). In 2025 it was given to 83 of their 134 babies (62%), again the 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 Lovely
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 Lovely and names like it
- Compare Lovely and LovellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLovely peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lovely since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Lovely: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Lovely.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lovely alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.