Lovetta
Lovetta was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,322 among girls’ names; 1,008 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lovetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lovetta?
#16,322 among girls’ names, 2025
Lovetta entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #16,322 in 2025.
25 babies in 1928, the peak
Lovetta peaked in 1928, when 25 girls were given it, #1,658 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,322 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,973 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,792 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,177 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,376 | 4.0 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,731 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,504 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,380 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,378 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,354 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 6 | #9,136 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,361 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,354 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,578 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,726 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,963 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,353 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,636 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,884 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,654 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,484 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,992 | 10.6 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,108 | 9.6 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,876 | 10.6 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,133 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,153 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,646 | 10.9 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,782 | 9.9 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,052 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,542 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,882 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,814 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,510 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,484 | 10.3 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,104 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,309 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,758 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,980 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,936 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,780 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,708 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,972 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,852 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,710 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,399 | 10.8 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,921 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,993 | 14.9 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,067 | 14.0 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,768 | 18.2 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,071 | 14.5 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,392 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,102 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,059 | 15.3 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,584 | 22.0 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,811 | 18.9 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,314 | 13.1 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,165 | 14.1 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,990 | 16.0 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,054 | 9.0 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,658 | 21.7 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,494 | 11.7 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,805 | 19.4 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,341 | 13.1 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,962 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,417 | 12.4 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,346 | 13.3 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,446 | 12.2 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,328 | 13.4 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,657 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,932 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,244 | 8.3 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,761 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,923 | 17.3 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,045 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,044 | 9.6 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,093 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,707 | 22.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lovetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lovetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lovetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lovetta, and how old are they?
An estimated 507 Americans named Lovetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 56 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 568 people named Lovetta (566 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 588 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,780 babies since 1880, Lovetta is the most given (57% of them).
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 Lovetta
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 Lovetta and names like it
- Compare Lovetta and LovetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLovetta peaked in 1928.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lovetta since 1910.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Lovetta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lovetta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.