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This is a truly lovely name.

Love it. The pronunciation makes it all the more better!

Just not nice as a personal name, I don't like it much. Looks plain, boring, immature, just silly and not nice.

Oh my! Stunning I Love this!

I'm Swedish and Love this name! Beautiful.

I Love this.

I like this version of the name, pronounced Loo-veh, and would Love to use it on a child, but since I live in an English-speaking country, it would not go over well.

Don't recommend if you live in an English-speaking country, as it is spelled like the word "Love".

Love is a short form of Ludvig. Do you think Ludvig would be great for a girl too? I hope that people in Sweden don't name their daughters Love. After a while the name will then be ruined for boys b/c people will say that it is a girl's name.

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There already exists a feminine form: Lova. It is short for Lovisa (Louisa).

So I'm Swedish and let's just establish that this name has nothing to do with the English word 'Love'. It's pronounced "LOO-veh". Love is called "kärlek" in Swedish so there is no association to the word Love. I think this name works better on a girl. It's like Tove, Lise or other Scandinavian girls' names that replace the final letter 'a' with 'e'. I had two childhood friends named Love, one girl and one boy. I just feel that Love is better suited on a girl.

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Of course you have to keep in mind that your daughter might be initially confused for a boy if you name her Love in Sweden. But I think unisex names or gender-ambiguous names are really cool.

I think Love is better as a girl's name. I think it sounds wrong as a boy's name, since females are typically all about that life but males are usually in their typical rough nature. I would use it as a girl's middle name, especially if her first name was masculine. A boy with the name would be teased about the confusion of his gender.

Let's say we are talkin' the English pronunciation. I Love it as a girl's name. More of a middle name than a first name though. If it's a boy's I absolutely hate it. He would get teased non-stop.

It is interesting to me that this name is as popular as it is in Sweden, considering the Swedes are ranked as the best English speakers who don't have English as a first language. I know it's completely separate from the English word "Love," but it's interesting that that association isn't there for them or that it doesn't bother them.

Wow, I didn't know this was a name. I wouldn't give it to my child or anything, but I like it.

I really like this name with the Swedish pronunciation. But, due to the English word 'love', I'd probably spell it as Lowe, or just go with Louis.

I don't understand why a person would name their kid Love! Am I right?!

My brother gave his son this name, but with a W instead of a V, so it should not be any complications international and people call him "Love".

I think this is an ok name if you are in Sweeden or wherever, but no way in the English language. A child would get soooooo much teasing out of this - I have never heard this name, and if I saw it my mind would automatically go to "Love" in the dictionary.

For some reason I really like this. I would say it like you would when you love someone but the more French sounding way. Hummmmm. Yes, I do believe I like it!

I think naming a guy "Love" would ensure him teasing, no matter how it's spelt. Same for a girl, unless it's a middle name.

Love is a name, with a meaning, it is not just the word "love" in English. In Sweden it is not pronounced like the word "love" is in English (more like LO-veh) and all people in all countries are not going to connect it to the word "love" since people speak different languages.

I agree. Since Sweden has its own language and has a different word for "Love", this would not be a bad name for a child. I like this pronunciation a lot, too.