Love is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
Love is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,237 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,236 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Love.
Love is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1960, where the name Love was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Love and were born in the USA in 1960, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Love even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1885, it ranked on position 532 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Love was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Love has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 381 times and thus landed on position 645 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular female first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 381 girls with the name Love, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
You may not know anyone named Love, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 27 states are home to women and girls named Love. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Love living in one state or another. If your name is Love and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Nevada, which has the most people named Love relative to the population, you still have to ask 16,544 women and girls their names before you hear Love as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With four letters, the name Love is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Love and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Love, you can simply say:
Lion
Orange
Violin
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Love
Love
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
O
V
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
O
V
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Love sounds like this:
