# Lovejoy (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/lovejoy/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 8,351 |
| US rank (2010) | 4,249 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 36,971 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.2% (8,090 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈlʌvd͡ʒɔɪ/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Old English lufu (“love”) + Old French ioie (“joy”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Lovejoy in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 82% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 11% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 2.7% |
| Two or more races | 2.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Lovejoy in the United States, Germany and Australia.

## People named Lovejoy

- Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, American philosopher and intellectual historian (1873-1962)
- Frank Lovejoy, American actor (1914–1962)
- Deirdre Lovejoy, American actress
- Terry Lovejoy, Australian information technologist and amateur astronomer from Queensland (born 1966)
- Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister, journalist, and abolitionist (1802–1837)
- Owen Lovejoy, American politician (1811-1864)
- Thomas E. Lovejoy, American ecologist (1941–2021)
- Ben Lovejoy, American ice hockey player

## Similar surnames

López, Lopes, Levesque, Livesay, Lepage, Lipsey, Lipps, Laubach, Luebke, Levis, Lipka, Laabs.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.