The LOVE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	78,323	363	0.029	290
United States (1880 census)	17,901	307	0.036	358
Change since 1880	+60422	-56	-0.007	-68
Other Countries
Australia	3,211	477	0.02	196
United Kingdom	10,093	591	0.022	220

Top States for LOVE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	6,716	369	0.032	322
California	5,903	540	0.017	174
Florida	4,266	443	0.027	267
North Carolina	4,238	242	0.053	527
Illinois	3,812	287	0.031	307
Top States for LOVE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	1,983	193	0.070	697
Tennessee	3,542	220	0.062	623
Alabama	2,692	258	0.061	605
Arkansas	1,451	231	0.054	543
North Carolina	4,238	242	0.053	527

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LOVE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LOVE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LOVE in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LOVE by picking someone at random in Mississippi than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LOVE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LOVE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the LOVE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LOVE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	439	0.56
Asian/Pacific	352	0.45
White (Caucasian)	46,446	59.3
Black/African American	28,400	36.26
Mixed Race	1,457	1.86
White (Hispanic)	1,238	1.58

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LOVE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to LOVE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LOVE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.