Love

girls’ name · 82%boys’ name · 18%At its peak · modern nameCompare

Love is ranked 846th among girls in 2024 (319 births). Its best rank was 732nd, in 2023.

Rank in 2024: #846down 114 from 2023
Births in 2024: 3190.02% of girls
Peak year: 2022386 births
Best rank: #732in 2023
Since 1880: 5,494people given the name

Babies named Love, by year of birthgirlsboys

The story in the numbers

4,527 girls have been named Love in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 386 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2020s alone account for 35%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Love is used for both sexes: 18% of its bearers are boys (967), most of them born around 2022.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Love
1880s	30
1890s	79
1900s	63
1910s	126
1920s	139
1930s	74
1940s	38
1950s	22
1960s	62
1970s	261
1980s	139
1990s	168
2000s	592
2010s	1,149
2020s	1,585

In 2022, its biggest year

Love was the 750th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2022 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Sophia. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Love

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.