Meaning not yet researched.
Kove: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,743 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,743 in 2022; #2,627 in 2025. About 61% of babies named Kove in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,627 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,743.
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Kove: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,743 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 96 (2022).
In 2025, 50 US boys were named Kove, making it the 2,627th most common boys’ name of the year, up 147 places from #2,774 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 47 boys named Kove in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,743, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 96. For comparison, it was #11,502 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 32 US girls were named Kove, making it the 4,412th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,401 places from #6,813 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 17 girls named Kove in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,160, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 35. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kove in 13 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2012 with 5 babies. In all, 548 US babies have been given the name, 27% of them girls and 73% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 484 babies named Kove.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 385 US boys were named Kove; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 96. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,162 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Cove (1,696 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 Kove in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).