Lovette — girls' name
467 babies named Lovette in U.S. Social Security records since 1948, with the highest year being 1965. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
22% of everyone ever named Lovette was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Lovette in 1965 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lovette
The Social Security Administration has registered 467 babies named Lovette between 1948 and 2023, spanning 76 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lovette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1965, when 17 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lovette performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 104 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Lovette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Lovette in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lovette 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 467 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.
Lovette at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lovette popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1948
- Peak year (1965)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 76 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
467 total births across 76 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1965 with 17 births in a single year.
Lovette popularity over time — boys
10 total births recorded since 1921 (Lovette as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Lovette accounts for 2% of total recorded use across both genders.
Lovette by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 104 births that decade — 22% of Lovette's all-time total
Lovette decade highlights
- Peak decade 104 births
- Runner-up 94 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Lovette's strongest decade
104 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 22% of all-time use.
Lovette by state
Where Lovette concentrates geographically — total births since 1948
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 16 | 3.4% |
| #2 | Illinois | | 5 | 1.1% |
| #3 | New York | | 5 | 1.1% |
16 of 467 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 3.4% of nationwide
- Illinois 1.1% of nationwide
- New York 1.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 3.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1948–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.