Lovely

4,046 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lovely in the 2020 census, making it the 7,865th most common in the country. That is about one person in 73,900.

By the numbers

People: 4,046
Rank: 7,865th
How common: 1 in 73,900
Per 100,000: 1.4

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 70.3%
Black, not Hispanic 20.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Lovely

Pete Lovely (1926–2011)racecar driver
Louise Lovely (1895–1980)Australian actress

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

Surnames like Lovely

Also a first name

Lovely has been given to 2,397 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 2023. 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.