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Loveday- baptismal name, "the son of Loveday" of the same class as Christmas, Nowell, etc. The font name lingered on as Lowdy in Cornwall, the last refuge of many old English favourites, till the 18th century, and is not yet extinct. "John Lovdesman" (John the servant of Loveday) occurs in the Hundred Rolls, 1273 in co. Norfolk.