Lovette
Lovette was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 477 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lovette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lovette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,462, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1965, the peak
Lovette peaked in 1965, when 17 girls were given it, #3,109 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #14,462 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,831 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,964 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,988 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,140 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,245 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,462 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,507 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,128 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,570 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 10 | #10,933 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,890 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,602 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,310 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,405 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,304 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,610 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,046 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,754 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,045 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,453 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,789 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,366 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,452 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,640 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,470 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,885 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,417 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,245 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,924 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,647 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,656 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,635 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,766 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,742 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,347 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,879 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,814 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,032 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,798 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,754 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,439 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,188 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,243 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,109 | 9.6 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,524 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,425 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,417 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,117 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,097 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,817 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,560 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,493 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,410 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,057 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,768 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,015 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lovette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 477 Americans recorded as Lovette, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lovette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lovette, and how old are they?
An estimated 436 Americans named Lovette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 19 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 489 people named Lovette (443 women and girls, 46 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 420 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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.
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, Lovette is the second most given (27% 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 Lovette
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 Lovette and names like it
- Compare Lovette and LovettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLovette peaked in 1965.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lovette since 1910.
- The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Lovette.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lovette alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.