Meaning not yet researched.
Dov: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 123 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,230 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,230 in 2022; #1,453 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dov in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,453 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,230.
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Dov: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 123 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,230 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 160 (2022).
In 2025, 123 US boys were named Dov, making it the 1,453rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 81 places from #1,372 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 137 boys named Dov in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,230, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 160. For comparison, it was #1,435 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dov in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 9 babies. In all, 3,623 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,079 babies named Dov.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,340 US boys were named Dov; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 160. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,887 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dov ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #249 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dove (1,473 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Dov 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 77 | #249 | #287 |
| New Jersey | 23 | #359 | #305 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,281 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 123 | #1,453 |
| 2024 | — | — | 137 | #1,372 |
| 2023 | — | — | 153 | #1,259 |
| 2022 | — | — | 160 | #1,230 |
| 2021 | — | — | 143 | #1,310 |
| 2020 | — | — | 115 | #1,480 |
| 2019 | — | — | 134 | #1,341 |
| 2018 | — | — | 115 | #1,501 |
| 2017 | — | — | 118 | #1,451 |
| 2016 | — | — | 142 | #1,281 |
| 2015 | — | — | 119 | #1,435 |
| 2014 | — | — | 98 | #1,599 |
| 2013 | — | — | 86 | #1,715 |
| 2012 | — | — | 94 | #1,641 |
| 2011 | — | — | 98 | #1,580 |
| 2010 | — | — | 75 | #1,903 |
| 2009 | — | — | 81 | #1,830 |
| 2008 | — | — | 54 | #2,385 |
| 2007 | — | — | 75 | #1,897 |
| 2006 | — | — | 71 | #1,900 |
| 2005 | — | — | 55 | #2,191 |
| 2004 | — | — | 58 | #2,058 |
| 2003 | — | — | 53 | #2,110 |
| 2002 | — | — | 51 | #2,102 |
| 2001 | — | — | 62 | #1,803 |
| 2000 | — | — | 45 | #2,203 |
| 1999 | — | — | 53 | #1,865 |
| 1998 | — | — | 36 | #2,406 |
| 1997 | — | — | 23 | #3,192 |
| 1996 | — | — | 35 | #2,310 |
| 1995 | — | — | 38 | #2,148 |
| 1994 | — | — | 29 | #2,570 |
| 1993 | — | — | 32 | #2,367 |
| 1992 | — | — | 34 | #2,227 |
| 1991 | — | — | 27 | #2,564 |
| 1990 | — | — | 36 | #2,054 |
| 1989 | — | — | 29 | #2,313 |
| 1988 | — | — | 34 | #1,918 |
| 1987 | — | — | 24 | #2,351 |
| 1986 | — | — | 26 | #2,178 |
| 1985 | — | — | 36 | #1,705 |
| 1984 | — | — | 29 | #1,898 |
| 1983 | — | — | 25 | #2,107 |
| 1982 | — | — | 29 | #1,906 |
| 1981 | — | — | 34 | #1,703 |
| 1980 | — | — | 31 | #1,824 |
| 1979 | — | — | 26 | #2,005 |
| 1978 | — | — | 23 | #2,088 |
| 1977 | — | — | 29 | #1,795 |
| 1976 | — | — | 28 | #1,796 |
| 1975 | — | — | 26 | #1,849 |
| 1974 | — | — | 23 | #1,944 |
| 1973 | — | — | 22 | #1,943 |
| 1972 | — | — | 17 | #2,267 |
| 1971 | — | — | 27 | #1,720 |
| 1970 | — | — | 21 | #1,954 |
| 1969 | — | — | 11 | #2,739 |
| 1968 | — | — | 9 | #2,961 |
| 1967 | — | — | 12 | #2,393 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,516 |
| 1965 | — | — | 13 | #2,295 |
| 1964 | — | — | 13 | #2,344 |
| 1963 | — | — | 14 | #2,229 |
| 1962 | — | — | 10 | #2,718 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,585 |
| 1960 | — | — | 19 | #1,872 |
| 1959 | — | — | 18 | #1,928 |
| 1958 | — | — | 16 | #2,046 |
| 1957 | — | — | 12 | #2,409 |
| 1956 | — | — | 13 | #2,302 |
| 1955 | — | — | 12 | #2,333 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,794 |
| 1953 | — | — | 9 | #2,765 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #3,874 |
| 1949 | — | — | 9 | #2,664 |
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).