Family 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.