Lovell

Where Lovell comes from

Lovell hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1814
    Lovell Augustus Reeve born
    British biologist and publisher
  2. 1818
    Lovell Rousseau born
    General in the Union Army during the American Civil War
  3. 1886
    Debut at its peak, #845
    #845 among boys with 6 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  4. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1909
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lovell Augustus Reeve · British biologist and publisher, 1814–1865
  • Lovell Rousseau · General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, 1818–1869
  • Lovell Wooldridge · English cricketer, 1901–1983
  • Lovell Burchett Clarence · barrister and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon, 1838–1917

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.