Last name origins & meanings:
- English (of Norman origin) and French: from Anglo-Norman French
lo(u)vet, a nickname meaning ‘wolf cub’, ‘young wolf’ (see
Love, Low).
- Scottish: variant of
Lovat, a habitational name for a sept of the Frasers from Lovat
near Beauly in Inverness-shire, so named from Gaelic lobh
‘rot’, ‘putrefy’ + the locative suffix -aid.
This name appears in the following lists:
Alliterative Names
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