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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname from Middle English loveles ‘loveless’, ‘without love’, probably in the sense ‘fancy free’.
  • English : some early examples, such as Richard Lovelas (Kent 1344), may have as their second element Middle English las(se) ‘girl’, ‘maiden’.

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