Lovelace

English surname

"outlaw"

Updated Tue Apr 23 2024

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Lovelace Origin and Meaning

The name Lovelace is a boy's name meaning "outlaw".

The most famous bearer of this striking name is Ada Lovelace, the brilliant 19th-century writer, mathematician and early computer pioneer.

The name also belongs to the main antagonist of Samuel Richardson's 1748 epistolary novel Clarissa, the aristocratic libertine Robert Lovelace.

Surprisingly, the soft and sweet sounding surname Lovelace actually derives from an Old English word laweles, meaning "lawless, outlaw".

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