girls:
467 births since 1948
#5249 (8th percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1921
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
477 births since 1921
#7262 (6th percentile)
The name Lovette is the #7,262 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 477 recorded births since 1921. This represents the 6.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,249 (8.1% percentile) for all time with 467 births since 1948. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1921.
Lovette first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1921 (1921 for boys and 1948 for girls). Birth data for Lovette is available in 59 out of the 103 years between 1921 and 2023 (57 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 Lovette has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.9% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1948, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1921 to 1947), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1948 to 2023).
For girls, Lovette reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #745) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lovette ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 33.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lovette reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #528) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1934.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lovette".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lovette. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.8% confident that Lovette is pronounced as luh-VEHT, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is loh-VEHT, at 31.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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