Cova
#7,978 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cova has been given to 143 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #7,978 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Cova, 2025
1 in 255,000
Cova over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cova?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,978
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cova sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cova. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Covas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cova was born before 1923 — so the typical Cova is around 102 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 36.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 25.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 41
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (50).
Is Cova rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −304
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 92.9%
- Peak was 2024 (14)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.5% average annual change
Spellings of Cova
Cova is not the most common spelling — Ava is, with 16.7% against Cova's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Cova is used
Across 1910–2025, Cova was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 74,439 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Kentucky1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cova has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cova around the world
Where Cova ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2024–2025#4,201in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Cova by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Cova
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cova
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.