Lovely Girl
How popular is Lovely?
#2,214 girl name in 2025
83 baby girls were named Lovely in the US in 2025, making it the 2214th most popular girl name.
Lovely popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #2,214 for girls (▼ 134 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 83 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+20% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,590 in 2015, #2,441 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2023 (104 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,903 in 2023 |
| First recorded | 1918 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Lovely counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Lovely family of names ranked #1,609 for girls in 2025 (#1,492 the year before), with 95 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Lovely | 83 | 87% |
| Lovelee | 12 | 13% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Lovely is most popular
Babies named Lovely per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (64 girls)
- Ohio: 0.1 per 1,000 (17 girls)
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (46 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Florida: 0.1 per 1,000 (24 girls)
Lovely by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 14 | #3,450 |
| 1920s | 42 | #3,563 |
| 1930s | 29 | #3,433 |
| 1940s | 42 | #2,998 |
| 1950s | 49 | #3,695 |
| 1960s | 25 | #4,772 |
| 1970s | 88 | #3,777 |
| 1980s | 159 | #3,643 |
| 1990s | 241 | #3,494 |
| 2000s | 433 | #2,244 |
| 2010s | 741 | #2,070 |
| 2020s | 522 | #1,903 |
Girl names about as popular as Lovely
Questions
- Is Lovely a boy or girl name?
- Lovely is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Lovely were girls.
- How popular is the name Lovely?
- 83 baby girls were named Lovely in the US in 2025, making it the 2214th most popular girl name.
- When was Lovely most popular?
- Lovely peaked in 2023, when 104 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,903 in 2023.
- How many people are named Lovely?
- 2,397 babies have been named Lovely in the US since 1880. We estimate about 2,262 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 15.
- Where is Lovely most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Lovely was most common in California, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.