Girl

Dovie

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#4,583
30 girls
2015
#12,149
rank
1950
#1,382
rank

Dovie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #248 in 1891.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #248 in 1891; #4,583 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dovie in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#4,583 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1891, at #248.

Babies in 2025
30
Since 1880
9,086
Years on record
142

Babies named Dovie, every year since 1880

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Girls

Dovie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 girls in 2025. Peak: #248 in 1891 · most girls in one year: 235 (1917).

About the name Dovie

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.

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

No related spellings pass our data threshold.

Rare spellings summarised here: Dovey (138), Dovi (80), Dovy (18).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Dovie in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202530#4,583——
202429#4,695——
202323#5,430——
202226#5,062——
202110#9,757——
202014#7,661——
201918#6,494——
20187#12,848——
201711#9,493——
201617#6,995——
20158#12,149——
20149#11,244——
20137#13,565——
20126#15,492——
20118#12,489——
201010#10,636——
20098#12,769——
20087#14,264——
200710#11,064——
20057#13,394——
20048#11,927——
20017#12,426——
200010#9,360——
19995#15,089——
19986#12,906——
19975#14,385——
19965#14,136——
199510#8,267——
199413#6,786——
19938#9,840——
19928#9,731——
199110#8,142——
199013#6,575——
19895#12,951——
198711#6,444——
198612#5,868——
198511#6,154——
19849#6,961——
198310#6,350——
198215#4,771——
198112#5,654——
198020#3,883——
197912#5,509——
197813#5,003——
197716#4,278——
197615#4,208——
197515#4,205——
197413#4,526——
197315#4,031——
197217#3,595——
197116#3,830——
197019#3,337——
196918#3,231——
196817#3,207——
196718#2,992——
196627#2,314——
196527#2,310——
196437#1,957——
196335#1,989——
196244#1,711——
196151#1,582——
196024#2,458——
195938#1,802——
195841#1,683——
195739#1,731——
195631#1,940——
195539#1,648——
195446#1,484——
195351#1,361——
195247#1,423——
195145#1,397——
195044#1,382——
194954#1,236——
194856#1,211——
194765#1,109——
194667#1,035——
194566#943——
194465#966——
194374#903——
194265#972——
194165#912——
194085#754——
193975#791——
193883#767——
193783#748——
193682#733——
193594#6885#3,802
1934114#621——
1933124#575——
1932128#580——
1931118#611——
1930137#584——
1929110#666——
1928143#588——
1927144#589——
1926149#581——
1925146#599——
1924162#5755#4,514
1923181#525——
1922187#511——
1921201#489——
1920194#494——
1919206#462——
1918194#488——
1917235#415——
1916175#484——
1915197#434——
1914182#392——
1913153#393——
1912175#346——
1911122#361——
1910115#365——
1909114#337——
1908132#307——
1907133#304——
1906125#296——
1905141#278——
1904129#277——
1903129#273——
1902109#302——
190194#310——
1900154#263——
189987#322——
1898124#273——
189795#299——
189686#312——
189593#299——
1894104#271——
189379#307——
189289#284——
189196#248——
189086#269——
188962#309——
188863#297——
188754#290——
188650#292——
188541#318——
188456#260——
188340#278——
188231#318——
188131#283——
188030#282——

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).