Lovísa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɔːvisa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lovísa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 282
- ISIceland1 in 888
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- 1 in 282 (inferred from the name graph)
36,172 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lovisa in SE Sweden, US United States, NA Namibia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lovísa 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.
36,172 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- Lovísa Sigurðardóttirb. 1940ISbadminton player
- Lovísa Thompsonb. 1999ISIcelandic handball player
- Lovísa María Hermannsdóttirb. 2001ISIcelandic association football player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 395 | — |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 280 | #135 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #31,123 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #10,110 |
| IS Iceland | Mannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Lovísa?
- A machine transcription gives /lɔːvisa/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
- Is Lovísa a male or female name?
- Lovísa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lovísa have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Lovísa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lovisa.
- Where is Lovísa most common?
- Lovísa is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 282 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lovísa?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 36,172 people named Lovísa, about 1 in 282 residents.
- How common is Lovísa compared with other names?
- In Namibia, Lovísa is the 184th most common given name of 327 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lovísa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lov%C3%ADsaThe 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, “Lovísa” — the 184th most common given name in Namibia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.