Lovie
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 9 babies a year in the US.
Lovie by the numbers
Lovie was given to 9 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 117 babies in 1919, so it is a 1910s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Lovie
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Lovie. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Loveaffection; beloved; deep attachment131 in the US (2017)
- Lorielaurel; a form of Laura12 in the US (2017)
- Leviejoined with; a form of Levi or Levy5 in the US (2017)
- Lornefrom Lorne, Scotland; place name10 in the US (2017)
- Lorinefrom laurentum, the laurel place; a form of Laurine7 in the US (2017)
- Lorriefrom laurentum, the laurel place; a form of Lorraine7 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Lovie
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