Lovejoy
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a medieval nickname for someone addicted to pleasure
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lʌvdʒɔɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lovejoy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 38K
- USUnited States1 in 40K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 373 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
8,351 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a medieval nickname for someone addicted to pleasure
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lovejoy 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 | — | 8,351 | 1 in 40K | 8.4K | Lovejoy | 373 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Lovejoy | 113 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Lovejoy | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Lovejoy | 58 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Lovejoy | 77 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Lovejoy | 7 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #654 | — | — | — | Lovejoy | 1 |
8,351 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Lovejoy is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from ‘love joy, joyful’; first attested Philipp Loveioy 1596 Musters (Surrey)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, nickname from Middle English love(n), luve(n) ‘to love’ (Old English lufian) -I- Middle English joie ‘joy’ (Old Frenchjoie).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Elijah Parish Lovejoyb. 1802USAmerican minister, journalist, and abolitionist (1802–1837)
- Owen Lovejoyb. 1811USAmerican politician (1811-1864)
- Arthur O. Lovejoyb. 1873USAmerican philosopher and intellectual historian (1873-1962)
- Frank Lovejoyb. 1914USAmerican actor (1914–1962)
- Ray Lovejoyb. 1939GBBritish film editor (1939–2001)
- Thomas Lovejoyb. 1941USAmerican ecologist (1941–2021)
- Owen Lovejoyb. 1943USanthropologist
- Deirdre Lovejoyb. 1962USAmerican actress
- Terry Lovejoyb. 1966AUAustralian information technologist and amateur astronomer from Queensland (born 1966)
- June Lovejoyb. 1994JPAmerican pornographic actor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.4K | #4,249 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.2K | #4,165 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.1K | #4,032 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Lovejoy mean, and where does it come from?
- from a medieval nickname for someone addicted to pleasure Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Lovejoy?
- A machine transcription gives /lʌvdʒɔɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lovejoy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.4 thousand people named Lovejoy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lovejoy.
- How common is the name Lovejoy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,351 people named Lovejoy in 2010, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
- How common is Lovejoy compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Lovejoy is the 654th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lovejoyThe 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, “Lovejoy” — the 654th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.