Ova
Ova is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 711th, in 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191951 births
- Best rank
- #711in 1898
- Since 1881
- 1,892people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,364 girls have been named Ova in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 51 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 51 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1917, and the 1910s alone account for 28%. It has spent 30 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Ova is used for both sexes: 28% of its bearers are boys (528), most of them born around 1918.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1919, its biggest year
Ova was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Ova
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vivapeak 1921
- Vestapeak 1918
- Erapeak 1916
- Beulahpeak 1916
- Omapeak 1916
- Madgepeak 1920
- Maybellepeak 1918
- Verdiepeak 1918
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.