Love Forename
8,600th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 120,023 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Congo
Love Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 100% | 50,595 | 1:3,510 | 620 |
| India | 100% | 8,768 | 1:138,558 | 15,647 |
| Ghana | 75% | 8,596 | 1:3,139 | 469 |
| DR Congo | 67% | 6,649 | 1:11,104 | 1,092 |
| Malawi | 79% | 5,944 | 1:2,879 | 517 |
| Congo | 78% | 5,159 | 1:971 | 147 |
| Egypt | 54% | 4,576 | 1:20,083 | 1,543 |
| Philippines | 84% | 4,475 | 1:23,689 | 2,312 |
| Zambia | - | 3,894 | 1:4,072 | 612 |
| Haiti | 69% | 2,790 | 1:3,845 | 581 |
| Liberia | 96% | 2,650 | 1:1,665 | 283 |
| United States | 76% | 2,621 | 1:138,320 | 5,567 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1,748 | 1:17,627 | 2,361 |
| Russia | 79% | 1,624 | 1:88,814 | 1,751 |
| Tanzania | 96% | 1,509 | 1:34,982 | 2,925 |
| Bangladesh | - | 1,466 | 1:108,773 | 7,125 |
| Sweden | 89% | 880 | 1:11,202 | 952 |
| Gabon | 100% | 762 | 1:2,472 | 591 |
| Zimbabwe | 61% | 574 | 1:26,871 | 2,777 |
| Cameroon | 62% | 525 | 1:41,163 | 2,850 |
| Morocco | - | 491 | 1:69,956 | 2,597 |
| South Africa | 50% | 361 | 1:151,060 | 10,600 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 286 | 1:72,724 | 6,418 |
| England | 68% | 235 | 1:236,608 | 6,558 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 234 | 1:30,564 | 2,996 |
| Canada | 100% | 203 | 1:163,219 | 6,753 |
| Poland | 72% | 188 | 1:202,272 | 3,614 |
| Kazakhstan | 71% | 164 | 1:108,212 | 3,199 |
| Indonesia | - | 139 | 1:1,855,854 | 97,231 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 127 | 1:1,530,375 | 23,060 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 97 | 1:317,386 | 6,177 |
| Brazil | 100% | 95 | 1:2,255,117 | 45,713 |
| Uganda | 72% | 94 | 1:435,712 | 10,722 |
| Benin | 77% | 92 | 1:114,955 | 6,757 |
| Thailand | 100% | 80 | 1:875,823 | 33,771 |
| Papua New Guinea | 51% | 77 | 1:105,874 | 9,607 |
| Kuwait | - | 76 | 1:49,806 | 4,237 |
| Bahrain | - | 59 | 1:22,859 | 3,234 |
| Netherlands | 57% | 57 | 1:296,528 | 9,349 |
| China | - | 55 | 1:24,837,378 | 60,674 |
| Portugal | - | 55 | 1:189,288 | 4,092 |
| Australia | - | 43 | 1:317,619 | 6,238 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 40 | 1:136,822 | 1,350 |
| Belarus | 67% | 37 | 1:256,281 | 2,042 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 37 | 1:281,926 | 10,232 |
| Germany | 51% | 37 | 1:2,612,916 | 13,583 |
| France | 100% | 35 | 1:1,899,153 | 11,366 |
| Botswana | 100% | 32 | 1:68,264 | 6,262 |
| Ecuador | - | 30 | 1:590,897 | 5,857 |
| Libya | - | 25 | 1:248,852 | 929 |
| Singapore | 60% | 25 | 1:251,482 | 9,031 |
| Iraq | - | 24 | 1:1,459,077 | 10,051 |
| Azerbaijan | 54% | 23 | 1:419,258 | 9,329 |
| Malaysia | 75% | 23 | 1:1,323,910 | 43,168 |
| Italy | 71% | 22 | 1:2,775,550 | 17,247 |
| Qatar | 50% | 20 | 1:118,480 | 12,874 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 20 | 1:4,631,156 | 3,563 |
| Ivory Coast | 67% | 19 | 1:1,214,523 | 33,777 |
| Oman | - | 18 | 1:228,259 | 3,410 |
| Moldova | - | 17 | 1:209,479 | 1,879 |
| Norway | 67% | 17 | 1:301,902 | 6,548 |
| Syria | - | 17 | 1:1,135,651 | 3,292 |
| South Sudan | 50% | 16 | 1:721,939 | 1,033 |
| Sudan | 100% | 16 | 1:2,362,936 | 3,917 |
| Nepal | - | 15 | 1:1,899,157 | 30,872 |
| Kenya | - | 14 | 1:3,307,651 | 22,394 |
| Armenia | 67% | 13 | 1:224,519 | 3,838 |
| Hong Kong | - | 13 | 1:596,363 | 4,636 |
| Iran | - | 13 | 1:6,038,221 | 21,383 |
| Finland | 69% | 12 | 1:456,932 | 5,495 |
| Mexico | - | 12 | 1:10,345,369 | 31,278 |
| Scotland | - | 12 | 1:445,864 | 5,809 |
| Japan | - | 11 | 1:11,635,096 | 36,893 |
| Belgium | 100% | 10 | 1:1,149,004 | 13,254 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 10 | 1:2,376,968 | 55,480 |
| Angola | - | 9 | 1:2,996,290 | 3,522 |
| South Korea | - | 9 | 1:616,047 | 14,026 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 9 | 1:930,547 | 3,856 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 8 | 1:2,034,166 | 23,777 |
| Denmark | - | 8 | 1:706,187 | 9,598 |
| Spain | - | 8 | 1:5,816,246 | 16,159 |
| Afghanistan | 75% | 7 | 1:4,660,502 | 27,414 |
| Hungary | 87% | 7 | 1:1,398,824 | 3,444 |
| Jordan | - | 7 | 1:1,260,968 | 6,027 |
| American Samoa | - | 6 | 1:9,308 | 1,982 |
| Georgia | 50% | 6 | 1:623,078 | 10,501 |
| Tunisia | - | 6 | 1:112,817 | 6,145 |
| Greece | - | 5 | 1:2,186,910 | 11,382 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 5 | 1:1,194,655 | 24,199 |
| Lebanon | - | 5 | 1:1,125,514 | 9,179 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 4 | 1:460,786 | 2,461 |
| Burundi | - | 4 | 1:2,476,640 | 1,357 |
| Chad | 100% | 4 | 1:3,399,600 | 8,891 |
| Ethiopia | - | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Iceland | - | 4 | 1:91,504 | 3,703 |
| Somalia | - | 4 | 1:3,381,467 | 5,208 |
| Togo | - | 4 | 1:1,809,810 | 5,654 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 4 | 1:7,550,473 | 90,577 |
| Ireland | 100% | 3 | 1:1,547,840 | 7,573 |
| Algeria | - | 3 | 1:12,725,573 | 18,455 |
| Israel | 100% | 3 | 1:2,800,973 | 24,529 |
| Maldives | - | 3 | 1:144,634 | 3,056 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 3 | 1:17,077 | 2,297 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 3 | 1:1,183,434 | 5,646 |
| Turkey | - | 3 | 1:25,933,903 | 52,822 |
| Ukraine | - | 3 | 1:15,166,636 | 17,541 |
| Austria | - | 2 | 1:4,257,100 | 13,469 |
| Belize | 100% | 2 | 1:177,154 | 5,935 |
| Croatia | - | 2 | 1:2,108,538 | 15,895 |
| Cyprus | - | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| El Salvador | - | 2 | 1:3,170,893 | 11,665 |
| North Macedonia | - | 2 | 1:1,045,378 | 12,250 |
| New Zealand | - | 2 | 1:2,268,022 | 12,390 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | - | 2 | 1:95,998 | 3,765 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 2 | 1:290,478 | 6,813 |
| Switzerland | 67% | 2 | 1:4,106,748 | 25,883 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | - | 2 | 1:680,710 | 23,658 |
| Yemen | - | 2 | 1:13,148,376 | 10,677 |
| Albania | - | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Argentina | - | 1 | 1:42,773,243 | 43,333 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| Bulgaria | - | 1 | 1:6,990,390 | 27,036 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 1 | 1:18,379,469 | 100,219 |
| Chile | 100% | 1 | 1:17,607,208 | 48,996 |
| Colombia | - | 1 | 1:47,778,926 | 95,497 |
| Czechia | 59% | 1 | 1:10,656,162 | 11,509 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Guinea | - | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| Guyana | - | 1 | 1:763,262 | 24,238 |
| Jamaica | - | 1 | 1:2,883,227 | 22,340 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Luxembourg | - | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Macau | - | 1 | 1:608,209 | 2,350 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Mozambique | - | 1 | 1:27,243,357 | 5,091 |
| Namibia | - | 1 | 1:2,404,179 | 16,970 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Nicaragua | - | 1 | 1:6,018,336 | 34,175 |
| Panama | - | 1 | 1:3,906,557 | 40,800 |
| Peru | 100% | 1 | 1:31,791,454 | 110,866 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 1 | 1:54,861 | 2,604 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Slovenia | - | 1 | 1:2,458,758 | 6,723 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:109,747 | 4,493 |
| Vanuatu | - | 1 | 1:261,792 | 1,604 |
| Wales | 100% | 1 | 1:3,094,309 | 16,222 |
The alternate forms: Lovè (1) are calculated separately.
Love (167,351) may also be a surname.
Love Forename Popularity
Love Demographics
Love Religious Adherence
in Russia
Sample size: 116 (2016)
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Phonetically Similar Names
Love Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Love in the Russian language | ||
| Лове | love | - |
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Footnotes
- First names are taken from the first part of an person's personal name. That is, not their inherited name(s), i.e. their surname(s). The first name includes particles, but not middle names
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Love