Meaning not yet researched.
Tova: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 66 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,750 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,750 in 1984; #2,643 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tova in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,643 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #1,750.
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Tova: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 66 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,750 in 1984 · most girls in one year: 94 (2023).
In 2025, 66 US girls were named Tova, making it the 2,643rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 16 places from #2,659 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 66 girls named Tova in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,750, reached in 1984. The most girls given the name in a single year was 94, in 2023. For comparison, it was #2,586 in 2015 and #6,041 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tova in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 5 babies. In all, 2,750 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 574 babies named Tova.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 688 US girls were named Tova; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 94. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,353 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tova ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #419 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Tovah and Tuva are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tovah (660), Tuva (5).
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 Tova 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 19 | #419 | #613 |
| New York | 12 | #1,231 | #852 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,643 | — | — |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,659 | — | — |
| 2023 | 94 | #2,075 | — | — |
| 2022 | 81 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,066 | — | — |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,995 | — | — |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,840 | — | — |
| 2017 | 73 | #2,483 | — | — |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 2015 | 70 | #2,586 | — | — |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,711 | — | — |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,458 | — | — |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,831 | — | — |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,601 | — | — |
| 2010 | 55 | #3,072 | — | — |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,794 | — | — |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,118 | — | — |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,212 | — | — |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,068 | — | — |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,506 | — | — |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,486 | — | — |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,652 | — | — |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,142 | — | — |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,193 | — | — |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,519 | — | — |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,890 | — | — |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,494 | — | — |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,933 | — | — |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,089 | — | — |
| 1995 | 39 | #3,018 | — | — |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,874 | — | — |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,152 | — | — |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,337 | — | — |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,077 | — | — |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,098 | — | — |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,488 | — | — |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,074 | — | — |
| 1985 | 51 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 1983 | 51 | #2,021 | — | — |
| 1982 | 30 | #3,015 | — | — |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,445 | — | — |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,862 | — | — |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,520 | — | — |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,738 | — | — |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,904 | — | — |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,859 | — | — |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,511 | — | — |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,101 | — | — |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,227 | — | — |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,897 | — | — |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,949 | — | — |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,196 | — | — |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,096 | — | — |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,625 | — | — |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,952 | — | — |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,547 | — | — |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,260 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,501 | — | — |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,788 | — | — |
| 1962 | 18 | #3,025 | — | — |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,522 | — | — |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,097 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,961 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,885 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,655 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,247 | — | — |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,465 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,329 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #6,041 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,977 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,315 | — | — |
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).