Dov
#1,451 for boys in 2025, 123 births
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 160 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,623since 1949
Dov over time
Rank among boys' names. Dov has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,451 | 123 |
| 2024 | #1,371 | 137 |
| 2023 | #1,258 | 153 |
| 2022 | #1,228 | 160 |
| 2021 | #1,307 | 143 |
| 2020 | #1,478 | 115 |
| 2019 | #1,340 | 134 |
| 2018 | #1,498 | 115 |
| 2017 | #1,449 | 118 |
| 2016 | #1,279 | 142 |
| 2015 | #1,434 | 119 |
| 2014 | #1,597 | 98 |
| 2013 | #1,709 | 86 |
| 2012 | #1,637 | 94 |
| 2011 | #1,577 | 98 |
| 2010 | #1,898 | 75 |
| 2009 | #1,825 | 81 |
| 2008 | #2,374 | 54 |
| 2007 | #1,890 | 75 |
| 2006 | #1,893 | 71 |
| 2005 | #2,182 | 55 |
| 2004 | #2,051 | 58 |
| 2003 | #2,102 | 53 |
| 2002 | #2,092 | 51 |
| 2001 | #1,800 | 62 |
| 2000 | #2,196 | 45 |
| 1999 | #1,858 | 53 |
| 1998 | #2,394 | 36 |
| 1997 | #3,160 | 23 |
| 1996 | #2,299 | 35 |
| 1995 | #2,140 | 38 |
| 1994 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1993 | #2,347 | 32 |
| 1992 | #2,214 | 34 |
| 1991 | #2,544 | 27 |
| 1990 | #2,049 | 36 |
| 1989 | #2,292 | 29 |
| 1988 | #1,909 | 34 |
| 1987 | #2,333 | 24 |
| 1986 | #2,161 | 26 |
| 1985 | #1,698 | 36 |
| 1984 | #1,885 | 29 |
| 1983 | #2,085 | 25 |
| 1982 | #1,890 | 29 |
| 1981 | #1,695 | 34 |
| 1980 | #1,808 | 31 |
| 1979 | #1,991 | 26 |
| 1978 | #2,068 | 23 |
| 1977 | #1,780 | 29 |
| 1976 | #1,781 | 28 |
| 1975 | #1,835 | 26 |
| 1974 | #1,934 | 23 |
| 1973 | #1,928 | 22 |
| 1972 | #2,243 | 17 |
| 1971 | #1,705 | 27 |
| 1970 | #1,939 | 21 |
| 1969 | #2,682 | 11 |
| 1968 | #2,907 | 9 |
| 1967 | #2,352 | 12 |
| 1966 | #2,465 | 11 |
| 1965 | #2,270 | 13 |
| 1964 | #2,310 | 13 |
| 1963 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1962 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1961 | #2,538 | 11 |
| 1960 | #1,858 | 19 |
| 1959 | #1,916 | 18 |
| 1958 | #2,026 | 16 |
| 1957 | #2,375 | 12 |
| 1956 | #2,263 | 13 |
| 1955 | #2,302 | 12 |
| 1954 | #2,743 | 9 |
| 1953 | #2,709 | 9 |
| 1952 | #3,734 | 5 |
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| 1949 | #2,606 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dov! It came in at #2,606, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1952, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Dov
- 80 spots since 2024 (#1,371 → #1,451)
- 27 spots since 2020 (#1,478 → #1,451)
- 17 spots since 2015 (#1,434 → #1,451)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 2022 at #1,228 (160 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,913 boys born in 2022 were named Dov (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,887 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 29.8% of all boys named Dov (1,079) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 9 | #2,606 (1949) | #2,606 |
| 1950s | 94 | #1,916 (1959) | #2,509 |
| 1960s | 123 | #1,858 (1960) | #2,426 |
| 1970s | 242 | #1,705 (1971) | #1,920 |
| 1980s | 297 | #1,695 (1981) | #1,976 |
| 1990s | 343 | #1,858 (1999) | #2,356 |
| 2000s | 605 | #1,800 (2001) | #2,041 |
| 2010s | 1,079 | #1,279 (2016) | #1,542 |
| 2020s | 831 | #1,228 (2022) | #1,349 |
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.
Dov in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 13,887 of them was named Dov, which outranked 89.6% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,443Reyansh124
- #1,443Syair124
- #1,443Yair124
- #1,451Dov123
- #1,451Coy123
- #1,451Demari123
- #1,451Osiel123
- #1,459Giuseppe122
- #1,459Jai122
- #1,459Jakobe122
Tied with 7 names at #1,451; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.