Love

At the 2020 census, 83,691 Americans bore the surname Love — 371st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 3,571.

By the numbers

People: 83,691
Rank: 371st
How common: 1 in 3,571
Per 100,000: 28.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Love described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 53.8%
Black, not Hispanic 35.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Love

Courtney Love (born 1964)American rock musician
Kevin Love (born 1988)American basketball player
Vágner Love (born 1984)Brazilian association football player
Bessie Love (1898–1986)American actress
Faizon Love (born 1968)Cuban-American actor and comedian
Brandi Love (born 1973)American pornographic actress
Mia Love (1975–2025)American politician
Darlene Love (born 1941)American musician

People named Love with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Love

Also a first name

Love has been given to 5,785 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.