# Love (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/love/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,785 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 988 / 4,797 (83% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 109, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 71 | 2,545 |
| 2012 | 112 | 1,817 |
| 2013 | 141 | 1,552 |
| 2014 | 127 | 1,669 |
| 2015 | 113 | 1,837 |
| 2016 | 100 | 1,990 |
| 2017 | 123 | 1,733 |
| 2018 | 144 | 1,517 |
| 2019 | 128 | 1,651 |
| 2020 | 245 | 1,026 |
| 2021 | 251 | 1,018 |
| 2022 | 386 | 750 |
| 2023 | 384 | 732 |
| 2024 | 319 | 849 |
| 2025 | 269 | 957 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | 13,796 |
| 2010 | 12 | 6,938 |
| 2012 | 10 | 7,910 |
| 2014 | 13 | 6,496 |
| 2015 | 10 | 7,832 |
| 2016 | 5 | 13,432 |
| 2017 | 10 | 7,923 |
| 2018 | 9 | 8,570 |
| 2019 | 12 | 7,019 |
| 2020 | 14 | 6,168 |
| 2021 | 21 | 4,713 |
| 2022 | 32 | 3,583 |
| 2023 | 28 | 3,953 |
| 2024 | 25 | 4,279 |
| 2025 | 21 | 4,804 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | 3,548 |
| 2007 | 4 | 4,294 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |
| 2011 | 5 | 4,049 |
| 2012 | 4 | 4,838 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5,730 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4,063 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,985 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,519 |
| 2022 | 15 | 1,849 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,346 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,695 |
| 2025 | 13 | 2,138 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Love

- Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress and singer
- Judith Love Cohen, American aerospace engineer (1933–2016)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.