The LOVELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	20,628	1596	0.008	76
United States (1880 census)	4,083	1511	0.008	82
Change since 1880	+16545	-85	0	-6
Other Countries
Australia	2,325	691	0.014	142
United Kingdom	8,196	745	0.018	178

Top States for LOVELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,459	1706	0.007	70
California	1,314	2450	0.004	39
Tennessee	1,278	711	0.022	225
Georgia	1,035	1056	0.013	126
Florida	1,032	2021	0.006	65
Top States for LOVELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arkansas	630	563	0.024	236
Tennessee	1,278	711	0.022	225
Alabama	880	872	0.020	198
Utah	373	824	0.017	167
Vermont	101	1074	0.017	166

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

Classification and Origin of LOVELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LOVELL 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 LOVELL 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 LOVELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	336	1.63
Mixed Race	332	1.61
Native American/Alaskan	229	1.11
Asian/Pacific	171	0.83
White (Caucasian)	18,382	89.11
Black/African American	1,180	5.72

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

Meaning of LOVELL in historical publications

LOVEL. LOVELL. A very common surname, since our heraldric dictionaries assign about 40 coats to it. It is a derivative of the Lat. hqn<s, wolf, thus : Lupus, Loup, LupelliTS, Louvel, Lovel. The celebrated Hugh d'Abrincis, Earl of Chester, surnamed Lupus, was a nephew of the Conqueror. The barons Lovel, introduced into England at the Conquest, were lords of Yvery in Normandy. Ascelin, the son of Robert, the head of this race, who succeeded in 1083, was called Lupus on account of his viol 3nt temper. His younger son, William, Earl of Yver}'', acquired the diminutive sobriquet of Lupellus, the ' little wolf,' afterwards softened to Lupel, Luvel, and Lovel. Baronage. See Wolf.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to LOVELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LOVELL.

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.