Ova
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ova has been given to 1,892 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1919, with 51 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 72% girls, 28% boys all-time.
Babies named Ova, 2023
1 in 663,000
Ova 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Ova over time
In 2023, Ova went to 100% girls and 0% 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 Ova?
Ova had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ova sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ova. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ovas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ova was born before 1917 — so the typical Ova is around 108 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 28.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 2.6%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 51
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 28.0% of all recorded uses (382).
Is Ova 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
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- 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 1919 (51)
- Years since peak
- 106
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.4% average annual change
Where Ova is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Ova was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 63,209 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 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. Ova has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Ova is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Ova was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 11,761 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Kentucky1 in 11,111
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. Ova has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ova around the world
Where Ova 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 & Wales2020–2020#5,493in 2020
- France2020–2025#2,164in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Ova by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Ova
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ova
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.