Lovén

surname · Latin script

/luve:n/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Lovén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Spelling variant of Lown.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 8.3K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 24K
  • FIFinland1 in 24K

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.

Sweden (measured from records)

1,233 people

Sources
38 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 8.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Loven in US United States, FI Finland.

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)

Spelling variant of Lown

Sources 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lovén 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 Lovén is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden1,2331 in 8.3K1.2KLovén38
US United States7361 in 452K1KLoven4
FI Finland2301 in 24K230Loven12
NO Norway2261 in 24K226Lovén4
NL Netherlands971 in 178K97—2
DK Denmark611 in 96K61Lovén11

1,233 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Lovén is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Loven, Loeven, Löven, Lövén, Lóvëń

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Loven, Löven

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Philippines, Colombia

    Also written Loven, Löven, Lövêñ, Lôvëñ

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland

    Also written Loven

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Loven

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Sweden, Belgium

    Also written Loven, Lovèn

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Ловен, Loven, Lovon, Lovón

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Kenya

    Also written Loven

15 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

175018001850190019502000Lars Johan Lovén, b. 1795Sven Ludvig Lovén, b. 1809Fredrik Lovén, b. 1847Carl Lovén, b. 1874Nils Lovén, b. 1875Eberhard Lovén, b. 1891Idun Lovén, b. 1916Bjørn Lovén, b. 1970Fredrik Lovén, b. 1976Anja Ringgren Lovén, b. 1978

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalHej ,Dear Lovén, (English)
InformalHej ,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Lovén
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.2K#827
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—201#7,442
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—123—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—61#8,839

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lovén mean, and where does it come from?
Spelling variant of Lown Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
How do you pronounce Lovén?
A machine transcription gives /luve:n/ (IPA) for Swedish.
In which country does Lovén have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Lovén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lovén.
Where is Lovén most common?
Lovén is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Lovén?
In Sweden, the national register counted 1,233 people named Lovén, about 1 in 8.3 thousand residents.

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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, “Lovén”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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