How common is the surname Lovin?

1,887 people in the United States had the surname Lovin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,617 Americans. It ranked 15,508th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lovin?

In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Lovin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lovin getting more or less common?

More common. 1,810 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,887 in 2010, up 4.3%.

The surname Lovin

A surname, carried by 1,887 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L150

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lovin is more common than 90.4% of them.

Origin

Spelling variant of Loven; see Lown.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,887 people named Lovin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 163,617 Americans. That is up 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,810.

#15,508

rank among US surnames

1,887

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+4.3%

change since 2000 (was #14,983)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,499	Emert	1,889	163,444
#15,503	Shand	1,888	163,530
#15,508	Lucht	1,887	163,617

Who is named Lovin

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

90% of people named Lovin identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 90%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lovin

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

Questions

Where does the surname Lovin come from?: Spelling variant of Loven; see Lown.
How common is the surname Lovin?: 1,887 people in the United States had the surname Lovin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,617 Americans. It ranked 15,508th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lovin?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Lovin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lovin getting more or less common?: More common. 1,810 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,887 in 2010, up 4.3%.