Lovey vs Lovina
American parents have registered 2,479 Lovinas since 1880, against 859 Loveys. Lovina is still ahead, with 45 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Lovey Lovina
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 143 years in which either name was published, Lovina for 136 years and Lovey for 7 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1880–2025 Lovina ahead, apart from 5 short spells
7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Lovey | Lovina | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 859 | 2,479 |
| Most in one year | 22 | 48 |
| Babies in 2025 | 22 | 45 |
| Estimated living today | 380 | 1,500 |
| Median age today | 40 | 25 |
| Peak year | 1925 | 2023 |
| Best rank | 1,847th girls | 3,329th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,554th | 3,389th |
| First recorded | 1883 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 859 / 0 | 2,479 / 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 Loveys alive today are over 40; half the Lovinas are over 25. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lovey and Lovina.