girls:
26 births since 1924
#5690 (0th percentile)
boys:
68 births since 1913
#4518 (1st percentile)
overall:
94 births since 1913
#7645 (1st percentile)
The name Lovis is the #7,645 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 94 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 1.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,518 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 68 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,690 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 1924.
Lovis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1924 for girls). Birth data for Lovis is available in 15 out of the 66 years between 1913 and 1978 (11 years for boys and 5 years for girls). 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 Lovis has been given predominantly to boys, with 72.3% of all recorded births being male. In 1978, 100.0% of babies named Lovis were boys.
For boys, Lovis reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #527) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1978.
For girls, Lovis reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #592) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1933.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lovis".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lovis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.2% confident that Lovis is pronounced as LOH-vihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LOH-vees, at 10.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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