Given name & surname
Lova
Lova is used as a given name and a surname. Lova is connected with Lovisa.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Lova is a short form of Lovisa. Lovisa comes from French.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Swedish use, Lova is used as an affectionate form of Lovisa.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1888. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lova through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 426
- 0 boys · 426 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 10 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 18 in 1920. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 210 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lova’s family of names
Lova is an affectionate form of Lovisa. In French usage, Lova has a related form in LOUP. In Swedish usage, Lova is a short form of Lovisa.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Lova
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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