girls:
5.8k births since 1880
#2173 (62nd percentile)
boys:
627 births since 1883
#3959 (14th percentile)
overall:
6.5k births since 1880
#3361 (57th percentile)
The name Lovie is the #3,361 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,473 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 56.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 56.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,173 (62.0% percentile) for all time with 5,846 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,959 (13.6% percentile) for all time with 627 births since 1883.
Lovie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1883 for boys).
The name Lovie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lovie reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 19.0% percentile (ranked #453) with 110 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 222 births per million (ranked 18.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lovie ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 2.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lovie reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #504) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 48 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lovie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lovie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.4% confident that Lovie is pronounced as LUH-vee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LOH-vee, at 32.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L AH1 V IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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