Lovey
Lovey was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,646 among girls’ names; 859 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lovey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lovey?
#5,646 among girls’ names, 2025
Lovey entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #5,646 in 2025.
22 babies in 1925, the peak
Lovey peaked in 1925, when 22 girls were given it, #1,873 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,646 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,712 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,871 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,116 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,779 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,516 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,175 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,077 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,384 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,410 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 8 | #12,685 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,464 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,436 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,901 | 5.6 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,737 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,014 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,086 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,292 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,292 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,047 | 3.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,766 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,377 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,064 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,830 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,894 | 4.7 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,131 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,184 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,137 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,925 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,951 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,131 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,681 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,117 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,149 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,740 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,939 | 5.4 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,411 | 4.4 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,353 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,489 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,434 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,266 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,228 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,769 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,691 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,016 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,201 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,848 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,287 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,330 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,034 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,327 | 6.7 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,655 | 9.6 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,638 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,289 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,653 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,576 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,613 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,683 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,621 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,772 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,896 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,991 | 16.0 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,274 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,566 | 11.3 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,635 | 10.9 |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,044 | 16.0 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,873 | 18.1 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,755 | 10.4 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,666 | 10.8 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,554 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,719 | 10.5 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,221 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,210 | 14.2 |
| 1918 | 18 | #2,070 | 15.5 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,495 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,943 | 9.6 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,327 | 13.2 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,046 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,453 | 12.8 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,827 | 10.8 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,355 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,478 | 27.7 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,429 | 28.8 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,624 | 23.9 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,109 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,627 | 24.0 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,432 | 29.1 |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,108 | 42.0 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,416 | 29.2 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,850 | 20.0 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,843 | 19.3 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,691 | 21.3 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,506 | 25.2 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,518 | 25.7 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,036 | 44.9 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,437 | 26.3 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,394 | 28.0 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,207 | 34.6 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,103 | 38.8 |
| 1883 | 5 | #992 | 44.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lovey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lovey has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lovey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lovey, and how old are they?
An estimated 375 Americans named Lovey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (44% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 8 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 470 people named Lovey (435 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 348 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% 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).
How common is the spelling Lovey?
Lovey is a less common spelling of Lovie: SSA has recorded 859 Lovey and 6,514 Lovie since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 13,794 babies since 1880, Lovey is the third most given (6.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 349 babies (6.3%), the second most given that year.
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 Lovey
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 Lovey and names like it
- Compare Lovey and LovieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLovey peaked in 1925.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lovey since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Lovey.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lovey alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.