Loveland Family History
Loveland Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Loveland in Devon possibly named with the Old English personal name Lufa + Old English land ‘cultivated land estate’. Americanized form of Norwegian Løvland or Lauvland: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named from lauv ‘leaf’ + land ‘(piece of) land farmstead’ probably referring to a place where deciduous trees grew. Compare Lofland .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022