Lovie
Lovie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 21 births. Its best rank was 392nd, in 1892.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 210.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1919117 births
- Best rank
- #392in 1892
- Since 1880
- 6,495people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,868 girls have been named Lovie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 117 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 65 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 627 boys have also been given it, 9.7% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lovie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 201 | |
| 1890s | 425 | |
| 1900s | 540 | |
| 1910s | 961 | |
| 1920s | 1,024 | |
| 1930s | 726 | |
| 1940s | 607 | |
| 1950s | 408 | |
| 1960s | 226 | |
| 1970s | 178 | |
| 1980s | 153 | |
| 1990s | 95 | |
| 2000s | 125 | |
| 2010s | 117 | |
| 2020s | 82 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Lovie was the 643rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Lovie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Estapeak 1920
- Almapeak 1918
- Virgiepeak 1918
- Essiepeak 1921
- Olapeak 1921
- Oleviapeak 1921
- Verniepeak 1916
- Ednapeak 1918
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.