Ova
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · Last seen for boys in 1964 at #4,039
Given to girls 72.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1882 · 8 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,364since 1881
Ova 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 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | — | |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | — | |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | — | |
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| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
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| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 | — | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,216 | 7 | |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | #2,964 | 8 |
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| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,019 | 7 | |
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | #2,862 | 8 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,690 | 8 | |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 | #2,996 | 6 |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 | #1,988 | 13 |
| 1943 | — | #2,732 | 8 | |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,272 | 14 | #2,872 | 7 |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | #2,081 | 12 |
| 1939 | #2,417 | 12 | #2,609 | 8 |
| 1938 | #2,340 | 13 | #2,185 | 11 |
| 1937 | #2,317 | 13 | #2,088 | 12 |
| 1936 | #2,857 | 9 | #2,854 | 7 |
| 1935 | #1,917 | 17 | #2,127 | 12 |
| 1934 | #2,187 | 14 | #2,973 | 7 |
| 1933 | #1,658 | 21 | #1,770 | 16 |
| 1932 | #1,877 | 18 | #2,313 | 11 |
| 1931 | #2,024 | 16 | #1,843 | 16 |
| 1930 | #2,425 | 13 | #2,178 | 13 |
| 1929 | #2,011 | 17 | #2,199 | 13 |
| 1928 | #1,738 | 23 | #2,659 | 10 |
| 1927 | #1,404 | 33 | #3,151 | 8 |
| 1926 | #1,830 | 22 | #1,787 | 19 |
| 1925 | #1,064 | 51 | #1,745 | 20 |
| 1924 | #1,301 | 38 | #1,532 | 25 |
| 1923 | #1,305 | 36 | #2,020 | 16 |
| 1922 | #1,342 | 35 | #1,644 | 22 |
| 1921 | #1,222 | 40 | #1,904 | 18 |
| 1920 | #1,171 | 42 | #3,208 | 8 |
| 1919 | #1,010 | 51 | #2,063 | 15 |
| 1918 | #1,091 | 45 | #1,404 | 26 |
| 1917 | #1,040 | 46 | #2,091 | 14 |
| 1916 | #1,043 | 44 | #1,698 | 18 |
| 1915 | #1,055 | 40 | #1,454 | 22 |
| 1914 | #901 | 42 | #2,271 | 9 |
| 1913 | #823 | 41 | #1,803 | 10 |
| 1912 | #938 | 29 | #2,045 | 7 |
| 1911 | #898 | 23 | #1,387 | 7 |
| 1910 | #941 | 21 | #1,589 | 5 |
| 1909 | #773 | 27 | — | |
| 1908 | #849 | 21 | #1,373 | 5 |
| 1907 | #775 | 23 | #1,200 | 6 |
| 1906 | #965 | 15 | — | |
| 1905 | #872 | 18 | — | |
| 1904 | #727 | 23 | — | |
| 1903 | #813 | 18 | — | |
| 1902 | #818 | 18 | — | |
| 1901 | #771 | 18 | #858 | 7 |
| 1900 | #885 | 18 | — | |
| 1899 | #704 | 20 | — | |
| 1898 | #697 | 22 | — | |
| 1897 | #715 | 19 | — | |
| 1896 | #843 | 15 | — | |
| 1895 | #703 | 20 | — | |
| 1894 | #950 | 11 | #954 | 6 |
| 1893 | #739 | 16 | — | |
| 1892 | #958 | 10 | — | |
| 1891 | #796 | 12 | — | |
| 1890 | #758 | 13 | — | |
| 1889 | #757 | 12 | — | |
| 1888 | #1,276 | 5 | — | |
| 1887 | #937 | 7 | — | |
| 1886 | #897 | 7 | — | |
| 1885 | — | #936 | 5 | |
| 1884 | #930 | 6 | — | |
| 1883 | #817 | 6 | — | |
| 1882 | #678 | 8 | — | |
| 1881 | #830 | 5 | — | |
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Ova! It came in at #830, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1885, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Ova is popular in 1913
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Tennessee#203 · 1 in 1,209
- Kentucky#327 · 1 in 2,608
- Oklahoma#328 · 1 in 2,311
Best ever in a state: #203 in Tennessee, 1913.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | #203 | 12 | 1 in 1,209 |
| Kentucky | #327 | 6 | 1 in 2,608 |
| Oklahoma | #328 | 5 | 1 in 2,311 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ova
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Biggest jump: 519 spots in 1889 (#1,276 → #757)
- Biggest drop: 339 spots in 1888 (#937 → #1,276)
- Debuted 1881
- Peaked 1882 at #678 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1885, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1889–1914
- Highest: 1 in 11,651 girls born in 1899 were named Ova (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 320,916 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #678 in 1882, was only 1 in 13,481 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.0% of all girls named Ova (382) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2019, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 56 | #678 (1882) | #890 |
| 1890s | 158 | #697 (1898) | #786 |
| 1900s | 199 | #727 (1904) | #825 |
| 1910s | 382 | #823 (1913) | #974 |
| 1920s | 337 | #1,064 (1925) | #1,439 |
| 1930s | 146 | #1,658 (1933) | #2,202 |
| 1940s | 35 | #2,272 (1941) | #3,971 |
| 1950s | 11 | #5,208 (1955) | #5,386 |
| 1960s | 5 | #6,390 (1960) | #6,390 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 0 | — | — |
| 2020s | 35 | #8,542 (2022) | #11,097 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ova in 1913
Top girls' names in 1913
Top boys' names in 1913
More about 1913
girls
624,546 girls got a published name in 1913; 1 in 15,233 of them was named Ova, which outranked 77.8% of the 3,707 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
512,566 boys got a published name in 1913; 1 in 51,257 of them was named Ova, which outranked 44.7% of the 3,261 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,676Young11
- #1,676Zeno11
- #1,676Zygmunt11
- #1,803Ova10
- #1,803Albino10
- #1,803Aleck10
- #1,803Algernon10
- #1,945Achille9
- #1,945Afton9
- #1,945Agustus9
Tied with 141 names at #1,803; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.