Love

Where Love comes from

The dictionaries list Love as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1961
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1978
    Love Larson born
    Swedish make-up artist and hair stylist
  4. 2008
    Love Arrhov born
    Swedish association football player
  5. 2023
    Peak, #731
    384 babies named Love — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
  • A female given name.
  • An unincorporated community in Butler County, Kentucky.
Namesakes
  • Love Arrhov · Swedish association football player, born 2008
  • Love Larson · Swedish make-up artist and hair stylist, born 1978
  • Love Ablish · Indian cricketer, born 1982
  • Love Antell · Swedish-Finnish singer-songwriter, born 1980
  • Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu · Indian mountain climber

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.