Løve

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Danish: lion (Panthera leo)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Løve is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 32K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 70K
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 382K

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 Løve 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.

Netherlands (measured from records)

551 named Loeve, 2007

Sources
25 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

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 Loeve in NL Netherlands, NO Norway and Løvê in DZ Algeria.

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)

lion (Panthera leo)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

How Løve is read(measured from records)

Løve 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.

  • Danish49%

    lion (Panthera leo)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Arabic19%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Løve in Arabic.

  • Norwegian Nynorsk9.1%

    a lion

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French7.1%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Løve in French.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Løve 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 Løve is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands551as Loeve1 in 31K551Loeve4
DK Denmark1851 in 32K185Løve25
DZ Algeria≈110 est.≈1 in 382K—Løvê3
NO Norway781 in 70K78Loeve2
BR Brazil63as Loeve1 in 3.4M63——

551 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Løve is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname43 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria, Norway, United States, Cameroon

    Also written Løvë, Løvê, Løvé, Løvè, Løvę

  • French surname23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Løvë, Løvê, Løvę, Lǿve, Ļǿve

  • English surname22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Løvë, Løvè, Løvė, Løvę, Ĺøvë

  • Spanish surname51 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Colombia, United States, Dominican Republic

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Løvê, Løvë, Løvè, Lǿvë, Løvé

  • Hindi name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Løvê, Løvè, Ĺøve, Løvë

11 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Løve
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—185#2,769
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—78#18,917

Reference works 1

  • 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 Løve mean, and where does it come from?
lion (Panthera leo) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Løve have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 551 people named Loeve, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Løve most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Løve is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 32 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Løve?
In Denmark, the national register counted 185 people named Løve, about 1 in 32 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, “Løve”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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