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Tove

#6,806 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Tove has been given to 279 babies in the U.S. since 1930. In 2025 it ranked #6,806 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Tove, 2025

1 in 195,000

Tove over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tove: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tove means

Tove is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tove is used in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Danish, Tove is pronounced /toːvə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 279 girls were recorded with the name Tove between 1930 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,871 in 1963.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,907 in 2020 to #6,806 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,916 in 2015 to #6,806 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tove?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,806
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tove sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

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

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tove. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Toves were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tove was born before 2016 — so the typical Tove is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
35.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
274
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 35.1% of all recorded uses (98).

Is Tove 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
+1,109
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,101
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,110
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.0%
Peak was 2023 (20)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,871
1963

Spellings of Tove

Tove is not the most common spelling — Rose is, with 44.8% against Tove's 0.02%.

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.

Tove around the world

Where Tove 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 & Wales
    2001–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #454
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Tove by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,806
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,101
Best rank ever
#4,871
1963
Peak year
2023
20 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
279
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Tove

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

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Sibling names for Tove

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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