Given name & surname
Lovett
“one who is full of love”
Lovett is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “one who is full of love.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who is full of love.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1886. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lovett through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 325
- 319 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 1931
- 15 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 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 263 as a first name in 2020; 18,125 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lovett’s family of names
Lovett has a related form in Lovat. Lovett has a related form in Lovatt. Lovett has a related form in Lovet.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Lovett
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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