girls:
4.2k births since 1880
#2654 (54th percentile)
boys:
942 births since 1882
#3649 (20th percentile)
overall:
5.1k births since 1880
#3804 (51st percentile)
The name Love is the #3,804 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,141 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 50.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,654 (53.6% percentile) for all time with 4,199 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,649 (20.4% percentile) for all time with 942 births since 1882.
Love has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1882 for boys). Birth data for Love is available in 134 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (120 years for girls and 102 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Love has been given predominantly to girls, with 81.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 93.2% of babies named Love were girls.
For girls, Love reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 38.1% percentile (ranked #593) with 214 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 218 births per million (ranked 37.6% percentile). Despite a peak around 2004, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Love is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #591 (37.6% percentile) with 218 births per million.
For boys, Love reached its peak popularity in 1890, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #204) with 100 births per million. The name was most common in 1890, with 100 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Love ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 15.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Love".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Love. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Love is pronounced as luhv, which has 1 syllables.
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