Lova
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Swedish: to promise; to commit to something
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lova is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 152K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 269as Liv
- SESweden1 in 949as Liv
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lova itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 152K (inferred from the name graph)
136,747 named Levi, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
to promise; to commit to something
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lova is read(measured from records)
Lova is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi49%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lova in Hindi.
- English17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lova in English.
- Swedish9.2%
to promise; to commit to something
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Lova är ursprungligen en smekform till → Lovisa. Namnet har varit populärt de senaste årtiondena (liksom den maskulina formen → Love). I den finlandssvenska almanackan 25 augusti.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- French7.2%
third-person singular past historic of lover
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lova 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 136,747as Levi | 1 in 2.4K | 136K | Lova | 61 |
| BR Brazil | 88,228as Levi | 1 in 2.4K | 88K | — | — |
| NO Norway | 20,317as Liv | 1 in 269 | 55K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 10,754as Liv | 1 in 949 | 11K | — | 6 |
| DK Denmark | 5,132as Liv | 1 in 1.1K | 5.1K | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 114 | 1 in 152K | 9.7K | — | 4 |
136,747 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling levi. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Lova is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, 18 février (2 / 3 mars), 20 février (4 / 5 mars). Léon est son équivalent français. Fêtes : 11 avril, 10 novembre, 28 novembre, 17 juillet, 19 avril, 1 mars, 22 avril, 25 mai. 80
as a nameRussian Names
In Hungarian, third-person singular single-possession possessive of ló
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nak, to measure in fathoms with arms outstretched
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lova Golovtchinerb. 1938CHSwiss writer
- Lova Moorb. 1946FRFrench singer
- Lova Meisterb. 1974SESwedish translator
- Lova Nantenainab. 1977FRMalagasy film director (born 1977)
- Lova Inger Irene Drevstamb. 1992SESwedish singer
- Lova Lundinb. 1995SESwedish association football player
- Lova Sönnerbob. 1998SESwedish singer
- Lova Blomb. 2003SESwedish ice hockey player
- Lova ZakariasyMGPh.D. Université Bordeaux 1 2004
- Lova Adrien Marie RakotoniainaMGMalagasy politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 89 | #69,079 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Lova mean, and where does it come from?
- to promise; to commit to something Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Lova a male or female name?
- Lova is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Lova?
- In the etymology graph, Louise, Luisa and Lou are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Lova have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 137 thousand people named Levi, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lova most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lova is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 152 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lova?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 114 people named Lova, about 1 in 152 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lova?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lovaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Lova”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.