The LOVELY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,917	7839	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	778	6728	0.002	16
Change since 1880	+3139	-1111	-0.001	-2
Other Countries
Australia	45	27898	0	3
United Kingdom	266	13783	0.001	6

Top States for LOVELY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	300	6676	0.002	19
Massachusetts	294	3019	0.005	46
Ohio	276	5169	0.002	24
Michigan	247	5004	0.002	25
Maine	229	1135	0.018	180
Top States for LOVELY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	229	1135	0.018	180
Vermont	43	2486	0.007	71
New Hampshire	86	2273	0.007	70
Massachusetts	294	3019	0.005	46
Kentucky	176	2917	0.004	44

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

Classification and Origin of LOVELY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	732	18.69
Mixed Race	79	2.02
White (Hispanic)	52	1.33
Asian/Pacific	38	0.97
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.2
White (Caucasian)	3,008	76.79

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

Similar names to LOVELY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LOVELY.

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.