Tovah
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 37 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 660since 1976
Tovah over time
Rank among girls' names. Tovah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 |
| 2009 | #7,679 | 16 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
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| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 |
| 1987 | #3,983 | 21 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 |
| 1985 | #3,852 | 21 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 |
| 1983 | #2,975 | 28 |
| 1982 | #4,167 | 18 |
| 1981 | #2,847 | 31 |
| 1980 | #2,537 | 37 |
| 1979 | #2,477 | 37 |
| 1978 | #2,680 | 31 |
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| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tovah! It came in at #8,156, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1977, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Tovah
- 2,218 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #8,860)
- 1,648 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #8,860)
- 71 spots since 2015 (#8,931 → #8,860)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 1979 at #2,477 (37 births)
- Births halved by 1982, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 43,386 girls born in 1979 were named Tovah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 29.4% of all girls named Tovah (194) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 74 | #2,477 (1979) | #4,438 |
| 1980s | 194 | #2,537 (1980) | #5,090 |
| 1990s | 65 | #7,303 (1990) | #9,826 |
| 2000s | 110 | #7,580 (2000) | #9,717 |
| 2010s | 130 | #7,342 (2019) | #8,555 |
| 2020s | 87 | #6,169 (2023) | #7,575 |
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.
Tovah in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 49,415 of them was named Tovah, which outranked 76.6% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,629Tywanda32
- #2,629Veleka32
- #2,629Willa32
- #2,680Tovah31
- #2,680Alyse31
- #2,680Amberlee31
- #2,680Aminah31
- #2,741Aliya30
- #2,741Autum30
- #2,741Becki30
Tied with 60 names at #2,680; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.