Dovie
#4,582 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dovie has been given to 9,086 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #4,582 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1917, with 235 recorded.
Babies named Dovie, 2025
1 in 111,000
Dovie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Dovie?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 111,000
- 30 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 53,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,582
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 76,598 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dovie 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dovie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dovies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dovie was born before 1920 — so the typical Dovie is around 105 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 19.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 3.1%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,348
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 19.3% of all recorded uses (1,754).
Is Dovie 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
- +111
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,074
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +7,562
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.75×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 12.8%
- Peak was 1917 (235)
- Years since peak
- 108
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.9% average annual change
Spellings of Dovie
Dovie is not the most common spelling — Doris is, with 47.7% against Dovie's 0.94%.
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 Dovie is used
Across 1910–2025, Dovie was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 3,704 girls, against 1 in 19,979 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arkansas1 in 3,704
- 2Oklahoma1 in 3,846
- 3Alabama1 in 6,250
- 4Kentucky1 in 7,692
- 5Mississippi1 in 7,692
- 6Tennessee1 in 9,091
- 7Texas1 in 12,500
- 8North Carolina1 in 14,286
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. Dovie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dovie around the world
Where Dovie 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 & Wales2021–2022#5,670in 2022
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Dovie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Dovie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Dovie
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dovie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Dovie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.