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How popular is the name Love?

Births per year, rank history and how many Loves are alive today.

Love (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 2138th in 2025 and given to 13 babies. The name peaked in 2022, when 15 babies were given the name, the 1849th most popular that year. It has risen strongly over the past decade.

The Love you are most likely to meet is around 3 years old. Half of all Loves born in England and Wales are between 4 and 21, and there are at least 140 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Love - on average, only one in every 2,250 such rooms contains a Love.

How many babies are named Love each year?

051015200020201999: 32003: 42005: 52006: 52007: 42010: 32011: 52012: 42014: 42015: 32017: 52018: 52020: 52021: 62022: 152023: 112024: 62025: 13actual

Where does Love rank among girls' names?

1101001,00010,000200020201999: ranked 3,9002003: ranked 3,5942005: ranked 3,3822006: ranked 3,5482007: ranked 4,2942010: ranked 5,7072011: ranked 4,0492012: ranked 4,8382014: ranked 4,6842015: ranked 5,7302017: ranked 4,0632018: ranked 3,9852020: ranked 3,8992021: ranked 3,5192022: ranked 1,8492023: ranked 2,3462024: ranked 3,6962025: ranked 2,138

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.

Chart: babies named Love per year in England and Wales, 1999 to 2025, peaking at about 15 in 2022
Love: births per year in England and Wales, 1999-2025. Free to share with a link back.

Common questions

When was the name Love most popular?

Love peaked in 2022, when 15 babies in England and Wales were given the name.

How many people are called Love?

At least 140 people named Love born in England and Wales are alive today.

How old is the typical Love?

Most living Loves are between 4 and 21; the most common age is about 3.

Is Love becoming more or less popular?

Rising: it has climbed strongly over the past decade.






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