Lovell

Lovell is the 1,729th most common surname in the United States, shared by 20,267 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,700.

By the numbers

People: 20,267
Rank: 1,729th
How common: 1 in 14,700
Per 100,000: 6.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Anglo-Norman

Originally a nickname, from Anglo-Norman lou (“wolf”) + -el.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.5%
Black, not Hispanic 5.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Lovell

Jim Lovell (1928–2025)American astronaut
Bernard Lovell (1913–2012)English physicist and radio astronomer
Santiago Lovell (1912–1966)Argentine heavyweight boxer
Guillermo Lovell (1918–1967)boxer
Jocelyn Lovell (1950–2016)Canadian, Commonwealth and Pan American champion cyclist

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

Surnames like Lovell

Also a first name

Lovell has been given to 4,044 American babies as a first name since 1886, peaking in 1916. 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.