Lovisa

Where Lovisa comes from

Lovisa hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1801
    Lovisa Aarberg born
    First recognised female doctor in Sweden
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #836 among girls with 5 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1991
    Lovisa Lindh born
    Swedish middle-distance runner
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lovisa Aarberg · First recognised female doctor in Sweden, 1801–1881
  • Lovisa Lindh · Swedish middle-distance runner, born 1991
  • Lovisa von Burghausen · Swedish writer of Baltic German origin, 1698–1733
  • Lovisa Karlsson · Swedish competitive sailor, born 1995
  • Lovisa Augusti · singer, 1756–1790

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.