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Kovid

Boys' name

Learned, expert

Kovid has been given to 12 babies in the U.S. since 2013. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2020, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Kovid, 2020

1 in 477,000

Kovid over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kovid: meaning, origin, and history

Learned, expert

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kovid means

Kovid means “learned, expert”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Sanskrit कोविद (kovida), meaning “learned, expert”.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Kovid (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Kovid is used in English.

Kovid comes through Sanskrit कोविद.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Kovid is pronounced /ˈkoʊ.vɪd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Kovid between 2013 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2020; its best national rank was #10,145 in 2020.

How common is Kovid?

Kovid had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 477,000
7 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 247,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,960 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kovid sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kovid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kovids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kovid was born before 2020 — so the typical Kovid is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
58.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
12
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Kovid 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
—
Not ranked then
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
0%
Peak was 2020 (7)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#10,145
2020

Spellings of Kovid

Kovid is not the most common spelling — David is, with 75.2% against Kovid'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.

Kovid by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,145
2020
Peak year
2020
7 that year
First recorded
2013
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kovid

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Kovid

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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