Meaning not yet researched.
Dove: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 144 in 2025. Its best rank was #639 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #639 in 1880; #1,487 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dove in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,487 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #639.
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Dove: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 144 girls in 2025. Peak: #639 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 144 (2025).
In 2025, 144 US girls were named Dove, making it the 1,487th most common girls’ name of the year, up 136 places from #1,623 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 128 girls named Dove in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #639, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 144, in 2025. For comparison, it was #7,065 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dove in 106 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 1,473 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 2.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 589 babies named Dove.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 677 US girls were named Dove; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 144. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,162 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dove ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #916 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dov (3,623 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 Dove in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 7 | #916 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #978 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,091 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,093 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,139 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,224 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,558 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,595 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,602 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,743 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,180 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 144 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 2024 | 128 | #1,623 | 5 | #12,812 |
| 2023 | 89 | #2,146 | 5 | #12,718 |
| 2022 | 87 | #2,178 | 5 | #12,852 |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,393 | — | — |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,105 | — | — |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,575 | — | — |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,049 | — | — |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,959 | — | — |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,239 | — | — |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,065 | — | — |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,262 | — | — |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,495 | — | — |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,535 | — | — |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,488 | — | — |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,074 | — | — |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,299 | — | — |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,023 | — | — |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,464 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,232 | — | — |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,607 | — | — |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,037 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,159 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,145 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,784 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,918 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,900 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,075 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,221 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,673 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,776 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,685 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,230 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,819 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,434 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,591 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,489 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,357 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,399 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,173 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,538 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,506 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,270 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,399 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,852 | — | — |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,199 | — | — |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,648 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,502 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,130 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,303 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,622 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,846 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,992 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,131 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,468 | — | — |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,328 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,080 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,618 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,740 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,596 | — | — |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,678 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,585 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,444 | — | — |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,026 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,204 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,627 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,036 | — | — |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,467 | — | — |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,973 | — | — |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,452 | 5 | #4,475 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,479 | — | — |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,498 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,978 | — | — |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,430 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,050 | — | — |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,747 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,292 | — | — |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,066 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,724 | — | — |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,019 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,864 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1898 | 12 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 1897 | 12 | #940 | — | — |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1895 | 11 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1893 | 11 | #915 | — | — |
| 1892 | 15 | #766 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 1888 | 8 | #976 | — | — |
| 1887 | 8 | #879 | — | — |
| 1886 | 7 | #920 | — | — |
| 1884 | 9 | #752 | — | — |
| 1882 | 5 | #944 | — | — |
| 1881 | 7 | #698 | — | — |
| 1880 | 8 | #639 | — | — |
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).