How common is the surname Lovelace?

13,787 people in the United States had the surname Lovelace in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 22,394 Americans. It ranked 2,613th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Lovelace?

William Randolph Lovelace II, American physician.

Where is the surname Lovelace most common?

Wikidata records people named Lovelace in the United States.

Is the surname Lovelace getting more or less common?

More common. 13,359 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,787 in 2010, up 3.2%.

The surname Lovelace

An English nickname surname, carried by 13,787 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L142

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lovelace is more common than 98.4% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Middle English lufeless (“loveless”), possibly a nickname for a philanderer. In the libertine sense, refers to Robert Lovelace, a character in Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady.

Lovelace is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 13,787 people named Lovelace in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 22,394 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 13,359.

#2,613

rank among US surnames

13,787

people in 2010

4.7

per 100,000 Americans

+3.2%

change since 2000 (was #2,478)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,604	Strauss	13,840	22,308
#2,605	Braswell	13,838	22,311
#2,606	Heaton	13,834	22,318
#2,607	Linder	13,830	22,324
#2,608	Hills	13,829	22,326
#2,609	Hamby	13,823	22,336
#2,610	Callaway	13,819	22,342

Who is named Lovelace

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

70% of people named Lovelace identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 70%
Black (not Hispanic) 24%
Two or more races 2.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Lovelaces

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

William Randolph Lovelace II
American physician, 1907–1965

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Surnames that sound like Lovelace

Loveless

Lovelace has the Soundex code L142, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L142.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Lovelace come from?: From Middle English lufeless (“loveless”), possibly a nickname for a philanderer. In the libertine sense, refers to Robert Lovelace, a character in Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady.
How common is the surname Lovelace?: 13,787 people in the United States had the surname Lovelace in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 22,394 Americans. It ranked 2,613th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lovelace?: In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Lovelace identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Lovelace?: William Randolph Lovelace II, American physician.
Where is the surname Lovelace most common?: Wikidata records people named Lovelace in the United States.
What type of surname is Lovelace?: Lovelace is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
Is the surname Lovelace getting more or less common?: More common. 13,359 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,787 in 2010, up 3.2%.
What are other spellings of Lovelace?: Loveless, Lowes and Lowess.