girls:
2.2k births since 1918
#3663 (36th percentile)
boys:
12 births since 1917
#4574 (0th percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1917
#5573 (28th percentile)
The name Lovely is the #5,573 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,221 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 28.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,663 (35.9% percentile) for all time with 2,209 births since 1918. For boys, it ranks #4,574 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1917.
Lovely first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for boys and 1918 for girls). Birth data for Lovely is available in 83 out of the 107 years between 1917 and 2023 (81 years for girls and 2 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 Lovely has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1918, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1917 to 1917), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (99.7% girls from 1918 to 2023).
For girls, Lovely reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 10.4% percentile (ranked #849) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 59 births per million (ranked 10.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lovely is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #849 (10.4% percentile) with 59 births per million.
For boys, Lovely reached its peak popularity in 1936, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #517) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1936.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lovely".
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