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Loveday
A given name in English
Language context for this entry: English
No sourced pronunciation yet
- Origin
- Not established
- 1 language context
- English
- Follow the evidence
- 2 cited sources Source-reported
01 / Meaning & origin
About Loveday
Loveday is a feminine given name documented in English.
No etymology is recorded in our sources for this spelling yet. The record exists because the name is documented in use; a meaning will be shown only once a cited source supports it.
02 / Across borders
Where Loveday is used
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Language records
Documented as a given name in English.
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03 / By the numbers
Popularity over time
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England and Wales
2025 Spelling: Loveday
Recorded category girls
- Latest · 2025
- 3
- births
- Rank #5,927
- Peak year
- 2025
- 3 births
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Source: Office for National Statistics · Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
No rounding stated on the workbook; counts are published as integers (valueStatus=observed).
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
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| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 5,927 | observed |
About this dataset and its counting rules
Statistics count the spelling “Loveday” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
- Universe
- Cover sheet, verbatim: « Baby name statistics are compiled from first names recorded when live births are registered in England and Wales as part of civil registration, a legal requirement. » « The statistics are based only on live births which occurred in the calendar year, as there is no public register of stillbirths. » « Babies born in England and Wales to women whose usual residence is outside England and Wales are included in the statistics for England and Wales as a whole, but excluded from any sub-division of England and Wales. » « The statistics are based on the exact spelling of the name given on the birth certificate. Grouping names with similar pronunciation would change the rankings. Exact names are given so users can group if they wish. » Table 6 counts exclude births where the mother's usual residence was outside England and Wales and where the name was not stated (note 3).
- Rounding
- No rounding stated on the workbook; counts are published as integers (valueStatus=observed).
- Suppression
- Note 6, verbatim: « Names with a count of 2 or less have been redacted using S40 of the Freedom of Information Act in order to protect the confidentiality of individuals. » Absence of a name therefore means a count of 2 or less (or not stated), never 0.
- Ranking
- Rank as published in Table 6 (and Table 1 for the top 100), preserved verbatim; NameStoria never recomputes ranks. Tie handling observed in this edition: tied counts share a rank and the following rank is skipped (e.g. 59, 59, 61). The published ranks are not reconstructible from the listed counts alone: the notes diagnostic shows that from a certain rank downward each published rank is one greater than a competition rank computed from Table 6, which indicates ONS ranked a list containing at least one name not shown in Table 6 (reason not stated on the sheet). Note 1, verbatim: « These rankings have been produced using the exact spelling of the name given at birth registration. Similar names with different spellings have been counted separately. »
Released 2026-07-09 · Retrieved 2026-10-14 · OGL-UK-3.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
History
Historical scholarship
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
- 1884From the archives
LOVEDAY— “love (?)”
LOVEDAY, _f._ _Corn._ Teu. love (?), 464
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
Sources for this page
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms1
- Wikidata Q29550436CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1
- Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates2
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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