In 2025, 30 US girls were named Dovie, making it the 4,583rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 112 places from #4,695 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 29 girls named Dovie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #248, reached in 1891. The most girls given the name in a single year was 235, in 1917. For comparison, it was #12,149 in 2015 and #1,382 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dovie in 142 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 30 babies. In all, 9,086 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 1,754 babies named Dovie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 185 US girls were named Dovie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,576 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Dovey, Dovi and Dovy are summarised on this page.