Lovelace

English surname
"outlaw"

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".

Lovelace in Pop Culture

  • Lovelace
    penguin character from the animated movie Happy Feet, voiced by Robin Williams