Cove
#1,927 for girls in 2025, 100 births · #1,191 for boys in 2025, 171 births
Given to boys 72.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 171 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,224since 1997
Cove over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,927 | 100 | #1,191 | 171 |
| 2024 | #2,282 | 81 | #1,205 | 168 |
| 2023 | #2,062 | 94 | #1,315 | 145 |
| 2022 | #2,319 | 80 | #1,374 | 136 |
| 2021 | #3,735 | 40 | #2,040 | 72 |
| 2020 | #4,757 | 27 | #1,977 | 72 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #2,300 | 58 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #2,493 | 51 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #2,726 | 44 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #2,412 | 53 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #4,392 | 22 |
| 2013 | — | #3,661 | 28 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,714 | 28 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,822 | 19 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,478 | 16 | |
| 2009 | — | #7,236 | 11 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,767 | 15 | |
| 2007 | — | #12,367 | 5 | |
| 2006 | — | #12,055 | 5 | |
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| 2004 | — | #8,927 | 7 | |
| 2003 | — | #10,894 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cove! It came in at #9,265, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1997–2003, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Cove
- 14 spots since 2024 (#1,205 → #1,191)
- 786 spots since 2020 (#1,977 → #1,191)
- 1,221 spots since 2015 (#2,412 → #1,191)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2025 at #1,191 (171 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,989 boys born in 2025 were named Cove (0.01%)
- 62.4% of all boys named Cove (764) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | #9,265 (1997) | #9,265 |
| 2000s | 53 | #5,767 (2008) | #9,686 |
| 2010s | 402 | #1,823 (2019) | #3,382 |
| 2020s | 764 | #1,191 (2025) | #1,517 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cove in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 111,891 of them was named Cove, which outranked 59.3% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,025Zona16
- #7,025Zyiah16
- #7,025Zyonna16
- #7,342Cove15
- #7,342Aasha15
- #7,342Aberdeen15
- #7,342Abi15
- #7,716Aadvika14
- #7,716Aamani14
- #7,716Aamirah14
Tied with 373 names at #7,342; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 21,617 of them was named Cove, which outranked 87.1% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,816Indiana84
- #1,816Tiberius84
- #1,816Zaine84
- #1,823Cove83
- #1,823Abdirahman83
- #1,823Brogan83
- #1,823Chosen83
- #1,842Jionni82
- #1,842Lake82
- #1,842Lamont82
Tied with 18 names at #1,823; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.