Dove
#1,487 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dove has been given to 1,473 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,487 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 144 recorded.
Babies named Dove, 2025
1 in 23,000
Dove 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Dove?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 23,000
- 144 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 11,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,487
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 15,959 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dove 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 15,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dove. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Doves were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dove was born before 2013 — so the typical Dove is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 40.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 55.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,084
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (574).
Is Dove 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
- +136
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,618
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +5,575
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 8.47×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (144)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.6% average annual change
Spellings of Dove
Dove is not the most common spelling — Rose is, with 44.5% against Dove's 0.13%.
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 Dove is used
Across 2016–2025, Dove was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 32,863 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 25,000
- 2Ohio1 in 25,000
- 3Texas1 in 25,000
- 4Arizona1 in 33,333
- 5Florida1 in 33,333
- 6Georgia1 in 33,333
- 7New Jersey1 in 33,333
- 8Oklahoma1 in 33,333
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.
Dove around the world
Where Dove 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 & Wales2019–2025#2,138in 2025
- Scotland2024–2024#638in 2024
- Canada2021–2024#3,027in 2024
- South Australia2000–2000#727in 2000
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Dove by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Dove
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dove
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.