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Lovell vs Lovetta

American parents have registered 4,044 Lovells since 1880, against 1,008 Lovettas. Lovell is still ahead, with 14 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lovell against Lovetta, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lovell Lovetta

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Lovell has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1886 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1961, when Lovell had 25 and Lovetta had 22.

Side by side

  Lovell Lovetta
Total US births 4,0441,008
Most in one year 6325
Babies in 2025 145
Estimated living today 2,100520
Median age today 4965
Peak year 19161928
Best rank 939th boys1,637th girls
Rank in 2025 6,143rd14,942nd
First recorded 18861910
Girls / boys 632 / 3,4121,008 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lovettas alive today are over 65; half the Lovells are over 49. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lovell and Lovetta.