Love vs Lovenia
American parents have registered 5,785 Loves since 1880, against 669 Lovenias. Love is still ahead, with 290 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Love Lovenia
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
Of the 140 years in which either name was published, Love for 120 years and Lovenia for 20 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1880–1935 Love ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1936–1943 Lovenia ahead
- 1949–1951 Love ahead
- 1957–1963 Lovenia ahead
- 1964–2025 Love ahead
7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Love | Lovenia | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 5,785 | 669 |
| Most in one year | 418 | 19 |
| Babies in 2025 | 290 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 4,700 | 180 |
| Median age today | 8 | 75 |
| Peak year | 2022 | 1918 |
| Best rank | 750th girls | 1,963rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 955th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1891 |
| Girls / boys | 4,797 / 988 | 669 / 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 Lovenias alive today are over 75; half the Loves are over 8. That is 67 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Love and Lovenia.