Cove
#1,927 for girls in 2025, 100 births · #1,191 for boys in 2025, 171 births
Given to boys 72.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 171 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,224since 1997
Cove over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,927 | 100 | #1,191 | 171 |
| 2024 | #2,282 | 81 | #1,205 | 168 |
| 2023 | #2,062 | 94 | #1,315 | 145 |
| 2022 | #2,319 | 80 | #1,374 | 136 |
| 2021 | #3,735 | 40 | #2,040 | 72 |
| 2020 | #4,757 | 27 | #1,977 | 72 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #2,300 | 58 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #2,493 | 51 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #2,726 | 44 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #2,412 | 53 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #4,392 | 22 |
| 2013 | — | #3,661 | 28 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,714 | 28 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,822 | 19 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,478 | 16 | |
| 2009 | — | #7,236 | 11 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,767 | 15 | |
| 2007 | — | #12,367 | 5 | |
| 2006 | — | #12,055 | 5 | |
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| 2004 | — | #8,927 | 7 | |
| 2003 | — | #10,894 | 5 | |
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| 2001 | — | #10,556 | 5 | |
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| 1997 | — | #9,265 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cove! It came in at #9,265, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1997–2003, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Cove is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#562 · 1 in 3,036
- Texas#2,122 · 1 in 31,347
- California#2,274 · 1 in 37,716
Best ever in a state: #394 in Utah, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #562 | 7 | 1 in 3,036 |
| Texas | #2,122 | 6 | 1 in 31,347 |
| California | #2,274 | 6 | 1 in 37,716 |
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See more about Cove
- 14 spots since 2024 (#1,205 → #1,191)
- 786 spots since 2020 (#1,977 → #1,191)
- 1,221 spots since 2015 (#2,412 → #1,191)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2025 at #1,191 (171 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,989 boys born in 2025 were named Cove (0.01%)
- 62.4% of all boys named Cove (764) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | #9,265 (1997) | #9,265 |
| 2000s | 53 | #5,767 (2008) | #9,686 |
| 2010s | 402 | #1,823 (2019) | #3,382 |
| 2020s | 764 | #1,191 (2025) | #1,517 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cove in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 357,020 of them was named Cove, which outranked 14.2% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,711 names at #16,419; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 36,165 of them was named Cove, which outranked 82.8% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,386Varun54
- #2,386Zaki54
- #2,386Zyan54
- #2,412Cove53
- #2,412Armoni53
- #2,412Caelan53
- #2,412Corben53
- #2,429Aleksandr52
- #2,429Basil52
- #2,429Bayne52
Tied with 16 names at #2,412; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.