Lovejoy

Lovejoy is the 4,165th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,231 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 36,300.

By the numbers

People: 8,231
Rank: 4,165th
How common: 1 in 36,300
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

From Old English lufu (“love”) + Old French ioie (“joy”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.6%
Black, not Hispanic 10.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Lovejoy

Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873–1962)American philosopher and intellectual historian
Frank Lovejoy (1912–1962)American actor
Deirdre Lovejoy (born 1962)American actress
Terry Lovejoy (born 1966)Australian information technologist and amateur astronomer from Queensland
Owen Lovejoy (1811–1864)American politician
Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1802–1837)American minister, journalist, and abolitionist
Thomas E. Lovejoy (1941–2021)American ecologist

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

Surnames like Lovejoy

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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.