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How popular is “Love” in the USA?

Number of people named “Love” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Love” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Love” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Love” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Love” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Love” by birth year

This chart shows how “Love” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 5 0.000024816 5 100%
1882 5 0.00002257 5 -100%
1884 8 0.000032859 8 -100%
1885 15 0.000062278 8 7 7%
1886 9 0.00003525 9 -100%
1887 7 0.000028295 7 -100%
1888 16 0.000053427 7 9 -13%
1889 16 0.000055374 10 6 25%
1890 20 0.000066357 8 12 -20%
1891 15 0.000052324 10 5 33%
1892 10 0.000029907 10 100%
1893 16 0.000049197 11 5 38%
1894 18 0.000053146 10 8 11%
1895 11 0.000031337 6 5 9%
1896 7 0.000019581 7 100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 100%
1898 16 0.000041945 10 6 25%
1900 15 0.000033314 8 7 7%
1901 7 0.000020242 7 100%
1902 14 0.000036201 5 9 -29%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 100%
1904 10 0.000024784 5 5 0%
1905 16 0.000037743 9 7 13%
1906 16 0.000037344 8 8 0%
1907 15 0.000032231 9 6 20%
1908 12 0.000024558 5 7 -17%
1909 10 0.000019561 10 -100%
1910 20 0.000033858 12 8 20%
1911 22 0.000034147 11 11 0%
1912 5 0.00000506 5 -100%
1913 17 0.00001495 12 5 41%
1914 27 0.000019063 10 17 -26%
1915 33 0.000018009 19 14 15%
1916 34 0.000017576 19 15 12%
1917 30 0.00001495 16 14 7%
1918 27 0.000012436 16 11 19%
1919 26 0.000012321 11 15 -15%
1920 27 0.000011933 15 12 11%
1921 30 0.000012851 17 13 13%
1922 29 0.000012668 12 17 -17%
1923 23 0.000009989 10 13 -13%
1924 35 0.000014696 17 18 -3%
1925 24 0.000010286 13 11 8%
1926 27 0.00001176 16 11 19%
1927 20 0.000008623 11 9 10%
1928 27 0.000011942 11 16 -19%
1929 26 0.00001186 17 9 31%
1930 31 0.000013943 22 9 42%
1931 19 0.000009029 7 12 -26%
1932 31 0.000014683 19 12 23%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 100%
1934 17 0.000008186 7 10 -18%
1935 15 0.000007177 6 9 -20%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 -100%
1938 16 0.000007231 5 11 -38%
1939 10 0.000004538 10 -100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 100%
1941 13 0.000005336 6 7 -8%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1944 18 0.000006691 10 8 11%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 100%
1947 11 0.000003054 5 6 -9%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 -100%
1950 16 0.000004567 9 7 13%
1951 11 0.000002986 11 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 100%
1965 10 0.000002758 5 5 0%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 100%
1969 12 0.000003453 12 100%
1970 19 0.000005268 19 100%
1971 30 0.00000874 23 7 53%
1972 36 0.000011454 31 5 72%
1973 31 0.000010275 24 7 55%
1974 38 0.0000125 29 9 53%
1975 37 0.000012254 26 11 41%
1976 41 0.000013512 34 7 66%
1977 32 0.000010074 32 100%
1978 27 0.000008507 21 6 56%
1979 29 0.000008717 22 7 52%
1980 17 0.000004935 17 100%
1981 15 0.000004336 15 100%
1982 21 0.000005986 21 100%
1983 13 0.000003754 7 6 8%
1984 13 0.000003726 13 100%
1985 19 0.000005323 13 6 37%
1986 16 0.000004498 11 5 38%
1987 14 0.000003883 14 100%
1988 22 0.000005954 16 6 45%
1989 18 0.000004682 12 6 33%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 100%
1991 19 0.000004878 11 8 16%
1992 16 0.000004165 10 6 25%
1993 21 0.00000557 13 8 24%
1994 19 0.000005111 12 7 26%
1995 23 0.00000628 17 6 48%
1996 30 0.000008225 23 7 53%
1997 16 0.000004413 16 100%
1998 33 0.000008972 26 7 58%
1999 40 0.000010829 30 10 50%
2000 62 0.000016403 56 6 81%
2001 57 0.000015227 48 9 68%
2002 52 0.00001391 47 5 81%
2003 57 0.000014991 47 10 65%
2004 60 0.000015703 51 9 70%
2005 61 0.000015865 49 12 61%
2006 58 0.000014661 52 6 79%
2007 89 0.000022263 77 12 73%
2008 85 0.000021625 80 5 88%
2009 85 0.00002225 85 100%
2010 102 0.000027599 90 12 76%
2011 71 0.000019411 71 100%
2012 122 0.000033357 112 10 84%
2013 141 0.000038676 141 100%
2014 140 0.000037773 127 13 81%
2015 123 0.000033235 113 10 84%
2016 105 0.000028621 100 5 90%
2017 133 0.00003719 123 10 85%
2018 153 0.000043517 144 9 88%
2019 140 0.000040335 128 12 83%
2020 259 0.000077532 245 14 89%
2021 272 0.000080285 251 21 85%
2022 418 0.000123554 386 32 85%
2023 412 0.000124426 384 28 86%
2024 344 0.00010335 319 25 85%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Love:

  1. Lovada
  2. Loval
  3. Lovanda
  4. Lovann
  5. Lovanna
  6. Love (this page)
  7. Lovea
  8. Loveah
  9. Loveaya
  10. Loveda
  11. Lovee