Luv
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- LUV
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Luv is a name of English origin, meaning “love”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Luv mean?
English: informal spelling of love
“love”
Is Luv a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Luv has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls and 5 boys in the US.
How popular is Luv in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Luv, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2023, with 10 girls. It first appears in the records in 1970. 5 boys were also named Luv in 2025 (12,003rd for boys).
Half of all the girls named Luv in the US since 1880 were born between 1977 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 275 girls in the US were given Luv or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #876, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
- Love 269
- Luv 6
Luv in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,560 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,565 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,294 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,065 |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,421 |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,069 |
Names like Luv
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Marigold, Palmer, Dulce, Lua, Sol, Lucero, Kehlani, Montserrat, Solana, Coco, Vesper, Ximena
Other spellings of Luv
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Luv: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/luv, updated 20 October 2026.