Recorded 1880–2025 · United States
Love was most popular in 2022, when 418 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,347 that year. In 2025 it ranked #1,735, with 290 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 5,785 people named Love.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Love is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 136 of the 146 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 5,785 American births named Love between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 4,715 are estimated to be alive today.
290 American babies were named Love in 2025, ranking #1,735 that year.
Love is rising. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 347 births a year, against 119 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +191% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Love is mostly a girl’s name — 82.9% of the 5,785 Americans given it were girls and 17.1% were boys. It changed hands: since 1929 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 93% girls and 7% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 4,715 Americans named Love are alive today — 82% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 9 years old, and half are between 4 and 21.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org