Meaning not yet researched.
Cove: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 171 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,192 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 63% of babies named Cove in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,192 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Cove: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 171 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,192 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 171 (2025).
In 2025, 171 US boys were named Cove, making it the 1,192nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 14 places from #1,206 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 168 boys named Cove in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,192, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 171. For comparison, it was #2,415 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 100 US girls were named Cove, making it the 1,933rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 355 places from #2,288 in 2024. That is 19 more than the 81 girls named Cove in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,933, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 100. For comparison, it was #17,041 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cove in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 5 babies. In all, 1,696 US babies have been given the name, 28% of them girls and 72% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,186 babies named Cove.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,000 US boys were named Cove; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 171. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,989 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cove ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #443 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kove (548 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cove in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 10 | #443 | #571 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #528 | — |
| Oregon | 6 | #545 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #732 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #873 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,032 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,122 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,127 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,240 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,278 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,312 | #2,332 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,313 | — |
| Texas | 11 | #1,575 | #2,177 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 100 | #1,933 | 171 | #1,192 |
| 2024 | 81 | #2,288 | 168 | #1,206 |
| 2023 | 94 | #2,064 | 145 | #1,316 |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,322 | 136 | #1,376 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,753 | 72 | #2,042 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,788 | 72 | #1,981 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,440 | 83 | #1,826 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,759 | 58 | #2,307 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,897 | 51 | #2,496 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,223 | 44 | #2,733 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,041 | 53 | #2,415 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,996 | 22 | #4,422 |
| 2013 | — | — | 28 | #3,676 |
| 2012 | — | — | 28 | #3,732 |
| 2011 | — | — | 19 | #4,850 |
| 2010 | — | — | 16 | #5,527 |
| 2009 | — | — | 11 | #7,315 |
| 2008 | — | — | 15 | #5,823 |
| 2007 | — | — | 5 | #12,717 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #12,395 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,133 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #11,212 |
| 2001 | — | — | 5 | #10,897 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #9,537 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).