Löv
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a leaf (on a tree or bush and not a needle)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/l2:v/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Löv is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 707Kas Лоев(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 39K
- SESweden1 in 43K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Löv 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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- 1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
237 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Лоев in RU Russia, BY Belarus and Loev in US United States, SG Singapore.
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)
a leaf (on a tree or bush and not a needle)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Löv 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.
237 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pehr Lövb. 1947FIFinnish 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 237 | #3,614 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 142 | #9,743 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 61 | — |
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 Löv mean, and where does it come from?
- a leaf (on a tree or bush and not a needle) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Löv?
- A machine transcription gives /l2:v/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Löv have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 237 people named Löv, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled löv.
- Where is Löv most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Löv is densest in Finland — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Löv?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 237 people named Löv, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Löv?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%B6vThe 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, “Löv”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.