Loveday
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LUV-day
- Origin
- English
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Loveday is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “day of reconciliation”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Loveday mean?
English: medieval English name
“day of reconciliation”
Medieval name long linked with Cornwall, from a loveday, a day set aside for settling disputes.
Is Loveday a girl's or a boy's name?
Loveday is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Loveday in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Loveday, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2001, with 10 girls.
Half of all the girls named Loveday in the UK since 1996 were born between 2002 and 2017. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Loveday in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 10 | #2,658 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #4,065 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 7 | #2,806 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 9 | #2,109 |
| 2002 | 6 | #2,691 |
| 2001 | 10 | #1,832 |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 3 | #3,935 |
Names like Loveday
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Loveday: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/loveday, updated 20 October 2026.