Dove
#1,484 for girls in 2025, 144 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #12,349
Given to girls 97.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1880 · 8 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,436since 1880
Dove over time
Rank among girls' names. Dove has never cracked the top 600 here.
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 | #1,484 | 144 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,622 | 128 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #2,142 | 89 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #2,174 | 87 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #2,384 | 75 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,091 | 51 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,922 | 27 | — | |
| 2016 | #6,186 | 20 | — | |
| 2015 | #6,977 | 17 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,207 | 20 | — | |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 | — | |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | — | |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | — | |
| 2010 | — | — | ||
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | — | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | — | |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | — | |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | — | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | — | |
| 2004 | — | — | ||
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | — | |
| 2002 | — | — | ||
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | — | |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | — | |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | — | |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | — | |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | — | |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | — | |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | — | |
| 1993 | — | — | ||
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | — | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | — | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | — | |
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | — | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | — | |
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | — | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 | — | |
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 | — | |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 | — | |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,293 | 15 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #4,009 | 11 | — | |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | — | |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | — | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 | — | |
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 | — | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 | — | |
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | #4,053 | 6 | — | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | #3,561 | 8 | — | |
| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 | — | |
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | #3,393 | 9 | — | |
| 1923 | #2,917 | 11 | — | |
| 1922 | #3,379 | 9 | #4,307 | 5 |
| 1921 | #3,400 | 9 | — | |
| 1920 | — | — | ||
| 1919 | — | #3,391 | 7 | |
| 1918 | #3,869 | 7 | — | |
| 1917 | #3,344 | 8 | — | |
| 1916 | #3,919 | 6 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,688 | 10 | — | |
| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 | — | |
| 1913 | #2,034 | 10 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,634 | 6 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,956 | 7 | — | |
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | #1,957 | 6 | — | |
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | #1,639 | 7 | — | |
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | #1,298 | 9 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,251 | 9 | — | |
| 1903 | #1,792 | 5 | — | |
| 1902 | #1,594 | 6 | — | |
| 1901 | #1,007 | 11 | — | |
| 1900 | #1,106 | 12 | — | |
| 1899 | #1,394 | 6 | — | |
| 1898 | #1,009 | 12 | — | |
| 1897 | #931 | 12 | — | |
| 1896 | #1,292 | 7 | — | |
| 1895 | #986 | 11 | — | |
| 1894 | #1,061 | 9 | — | |
| 1893 | #901 | 11 | — | |
| 1892 | #762 | 15 | — | |
| 1891 | #1,213 | 6 | — | |
| 1890 | #1,099 | 7 | — | |
| 1889 | #1,147 | 6 | — | |
| 1888 | #959 | 8 | — | |
| 1887 | #860 | 8 | — | |
| 1886 | #897 | 7 | — | |
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | #731 | 9 | — | |
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | #908 | 5 | — | |
| 1881 | #679 | 7 | — | |
| 1880 | #628 | 8 | — | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Dove was already there! It came in at #628, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1882–1883, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Dove is popular in 1886
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Dove
- 138 spots since 2024 (#1,622 → #1,484)
- 1,607 spots since 2020 (#3,091 → #1,484)
- 5,493 spots since 2015 (#6,977 → #1,484)
- Biggest jump: 451 spots in 1892 (#1,213 → #762)
- Biggest drop: 306 spots in 1896 (#986 → #1,292)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #628 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1883, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 1880–1882
- Highest: 1 in 11,162 girls born in 2025 were named Dove (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #628 in 1880, was only 1 in 11,374 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.0% of all girls named Dove (574) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 58 | #628 (1880) | #851 |
| 1890s | 96 | #762 (1892) | #1,065 |
| 1900s | 65 | #1,007 (1901) | #1,456 |
| 1910s | 60 | #1,956 (1911) | #2,954 |
| 1920s | 57 | #2,917 (1923) | #3,651 |
| 1930s | 11 | #3,901 (1932) | #4,094 |
| 1940s | 5 | #4,420 (1941) | #4,420 |
| 1950s | 14 | #4,625 (1959) | #5,017 |
| 1960s | 76 | #3,293 (1962) | #5,482 |
| 1970s | 78 | #5,092 (1979) | #6,194 |
| 1980s | 44 | #7,312 (1983) | #9,420 |
| 1990s | 70 | #7,512 (1992) | #10,434 |
| 2000s | 55 | #9,286 (2006) | #13,963 |
| 2010s | 173 | #4,546 (2019) | #7,181 |
| 2020s | 574 | #1,484 (2025) | #2,150 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dove in 1886
Top girls' names in 1886
More about 1886
girls
144,533 girls got a published name in 1886; 1 in 20,648 of them was named Dove, which outranked 30.0% of the 1,282 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).