Covey
#3,141 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Covey has been given to 373 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #3,141 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 38 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% boys, 25% girls all-time.
Babies named Covey, 2025
1 in 87,200
Covey 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Covey over time
In 2025, Covey went to 40% girls and 60% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Covey?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 87,200
- 38 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 44,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,141
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 60,472 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Covey 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 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Covey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Coveys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Covey was born before 2017 — so the typical Covey is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 40.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 67.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 279
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (112).
Is Covey 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
- +955
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +9,274
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (38)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 48.9% average annual change
Spellings of Covey
Covey is not the most common spelling — Cody is, with 26.2% against Covey's 0.03%.
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 Covey is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Covey was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 33,622 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Utah1 in 33,333
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Covey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Covey is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Covey was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in —
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. Covey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Covey around the world
Where Covey 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 & Wales2011–2025#1,359in 2025
- Northern Ireland2025–2025#395in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Covey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Covey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Covey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.