Lovàto

surname · Latin script

Lovàto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian Lovato, from Medieval Latin Lupātus, from the Latin cognomen Lupus + -ātus.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 27K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 40K
  • BRBrazil1 in 52K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

8,293 people, 2010

Record sources
198 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lovato in AR Argentina, US United States, BR Brazil and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
Derivation of Lovàto: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Lovàto
  1. ItalianLovato(measured from records)
  2. Medieval LatinLupātus(measured from records)

Borrowed from Italian Lovato, from Medieval Latin Lupātus, from the Latin cognomen Lupus + -ātus.

Cited for this meaning 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Lovàto counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Lovàto is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—8,2931 in 40K8.3KLovato198
BR Brazil—4,0931 in 52K4.1KLovato104
AR Argentina—1,6541 in 27K1.7KLovato55
ES Spain—1031 in 486K103Lovato31
CH Switzerland—761 in 111K76Lovato7
BE Belgium—701 in 167K70Lovato12
CU Cuba#294———Lovato3

8,293 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Lovàto is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, Peru

    Languages: Croatian, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Lovato, Ловато, Lövätö

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lovàto under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lovàto mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Italian Lovato, from Medieval Latin Lupātus, from the Latin cognomen Lupus + -ātus. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 2 other sources.
In which country does Lovàto have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Lovàto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lovato.
Where is Lovàto most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lovàto is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 27 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lovàto?
In the United States, the national register counted 8,293 people named Lovàto in 2010, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
How common is Lovàto compared with other names?
In Cuba, Lovàto is the 294th most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lovàto” — the 294th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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