girls:
99 births since 1970
#5617 (2nd percentile)
boys:
75 births since 1991
#4511 (2nd percentile)
overall:
174 births since 1970
#7565 (2nd percentile)
The name Luv is the #7,565 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 174 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 2.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,617 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 99 births since 1970. For boys, it ranks #4,511 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 75 births since 1991.
Luv first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for girls and 1991 for boys). Birth data for Luv is available in 24 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023 (14 years for girls and 13 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 Luv has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (56.9% of all recorded births). In 2023, 62.5% of babies named Luv were girls.
For girls, Luv reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #942) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Luv is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #942 (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million.
For boys, Luv reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #909) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Luv ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 64.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Luv".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Luv is pronounced as luhv, which has 1 syllables.
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