Dove
Dove is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 127 births. Its best rank was 639th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1270.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2024127 births
- Best rank
- #639in 1880
- Since 1880
- 1,322people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,290 girls have been named Dove in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2024, with 127 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2020s alone account for 33%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 32 boys have also been given it, 2.4% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dove | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 58 | |
| 1890s | 96 | |
| 1900s | 65 | |
| 1910s | 60 | |
| 1920s | 57 | |
| 1930s | 11 | |
| 1940s | 5 | |
| 1950s | 14 | |
| 1960s | 76 | |
| 1970s | 78 | |
| 1980s | 44 | |
| 1990s | 70 | |
| 2000s | 55 | |
| 2010s | 173 | |
| 2020s | 428 |
In 2024, its biggest year
Dove was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2024 were Olivia, Emma, Amelia, Charlotte and Mia. See all of 2024.
Names that rose and fell with Dove
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Milliepeak 2024
- Norapeak 2021
- Minapeak 2023
- Elizapeak 2021
- Isapeak 2018
- Leoniepeak 2024
- Lennapeak 2024
- Zorapeak 2019
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.