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The surname Lovan

A surname, carried by 1,363 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L150

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lovan is more common than 87.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,363 people named Lovan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 226,519 Americans. That is up 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,309.

#19,755
rank among US surnames
1,363
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+4.1%
change since 2000 (was #19,187)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#19,747Bohne1,364226,353
#19,755Wertman1,363226,519
#19,763Takeuchi1,362226,685

Who is named Lovan

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

45% of people named Lovan identified as white (not Hispanic), 41% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 45%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 41%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 7.3%
  • Two or more races 4.3%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lovan

Lovan has the Soundex code L150, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L150.

Questions

How common is the surname Lovan?
1,363 people in the United States had the surname Lovan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 226,519 Americans. It ranked 19,755th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lovan?
In the 2010 Census, 45% of people named Lovan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 41% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Lovan getting more or less common?
More common. 1,309 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,363 in 2010, up 4.1%.