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Lovie

Lovie: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“beloved one”
Origin
English
Say it
LUV-ee · 2 syllables
Used for
Girls (90% of all uses)

Lovie comes from the English word love and has been used as an affectionate given name or nickname. It can also function as a pet form rather than a formal name.

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How popular is Lovie?

20246.3 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Lovie in 202421

Peak year1907

Total US babies since 18806,495

Lovie is rising: use over the last five years is 1.9× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Lovie

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Oliviaolive tree · English
  • Evelyndesired; little bird · English
  • Harperharp player · English
  • Violetviolet flower · English
  • Hazelhazel tree · English
  • Ellieshort form of names ending in -el or -ella · English
  • Lilylily flower · English
  • Scarlettscarlet, bright red · English

Lovie questions

What does the name Lovie mean?

Lovie means "beloved one". It comes from English. Lovie comes from the English word love and has been used as an affectionate given name or nickname. It can also function as a pet form rather than a formal name.

Is Lovie a boy or girl name?

Lovie is mainly a girl's name in US records (90% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Lovie?

21 US babies were named Lovie in 2024. Its peak year was 1907.

How do you pronounce Lovie?

Lovie is usually pronounced LUV-ee.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.