Tova
#2,607 for girls in 2025, 66 births
- Peak · girls
- 1984 · 63 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,750since 1942
Tova over time
Rank among girls' names. Tova has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,607 | 66 |
| 2024 | #2,637 | 66 |
| 2023 | #2,062 | 94 |
| 2022 | #2,295 | 81 |
| 2021 | #3,037 | 54 |
| 2020 | #2,416 | 72 |
| 2019 | #2,962 | 55 |
| 2018 | #2,810 | 60 |
| 2017 | #2,464 | 73 |
| 2016 | #2,617 | 67 |
| 2015 | #2,555 | 70 |
| 2014 | #3,652 | 42 |
| 2013 | #3,404 | 46 |
| 2012 | #2,805 | 62 |
| 2011 | #3,550 | 44 |
| 2010 | #3,044 | 55 |
| 2009 | #3,737 | 42 |
| 2008 | #3,084 | 55 |
| 2007 | #3,168 | 54 |
| 2006 | #3,992 | 37 |
| 2005 | #3,461 | 43 |
| 2004 | #3,444 | 43 |
| 2003 | #3,590 | 39 |
| 2002 | #3,103 | 46 |
| 2001 | #3,142 | 44 |
| 2000 | #3,453 | 38 |
| 1999 | #3,804 | 31 |
| 1998 | #3,426 | 35 |
| 1997 | #2,874 | 42 |
| 1996 | #3,028 | 39 |
| 1995 | #2,977 | 39 |
| 1994 | #2,848 | 42 |
| 1993 | #3,108 | 37 |
| 1992 | #3,267 | 34 |
| 1991 | #2,703 | 44 |
| 1990 | #3,022 | 37 |
| 1989 | #3,045 | 35 |
| 1988 | #2,447 | 44 |
| 1987 | #2,156 | 50 |
| 1986 | #2,052 | 52 |
| 1985 | #2,082 | 51 |
| 1984 | #1,726 | 63 |
| 1983 | #1,993 | 51 |
| 1982 | #2,959 | 30 |
| 1981 | #2,409 | 40 |
| 1980 | #2,800 | 32 |
| 1979 | #2,477 | 37 |
| 1978 | #2,680 | 31 |
| 1977 | #2,838 | 28 |
| 1976 | #2,792 | 27 |
| 1975 | #2,456 | 32 |
| 1974 | #3,008 | 23 |
| 1973 | #3,122 | 21 |
| 1972 | #2,820 | 24 |
| 1971 | #2,874 | 24 |
| 1970 | #3,110 | 21 |
| 1969 | #3,012 | 20 |
| 1968 | #2,538 | 24 |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 |
| 1966 | #3,400 | 14 |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 |
| 1964 | #3,379 | 15 |
| 1963 | #3,635 | 13 |
| 1962 | #2,922 | 18 |
| 1961 | #4,239 | 10 |
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| 1959 | #2,980 | 16 |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 |
| 1957 | #4,536 | 8 |
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| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 |
| 1953 | #3,269 | 12 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
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| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 |
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| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tova! It came in at #4,622, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1942–1952, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Tova is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#635 · 1 in 3,035
- New York#973 · 1 in 5,417
Best ever in a state: #285 in New Jersey, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #635 | 12 | 1 in 3,035 |
| New York | #973 | 15 | 1 in 5,417 |
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See more about Tova
- 30 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #2,607)
- 191 spots since 2020 (#2,416 → #2,607)
- 52 spots since 2015 (#2,555 → #2,607)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 1984 at #1,726 (63 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,070 girls born in 2023 were named Tova (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,353 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,726 in 1984, was only 1 in 26,727 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.9% of all girls named Tova (574) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 10 | #4,622 (1942) | #4,933 |
| 1950s | 65 | #2,980 (1959) | #4,693 |
| 1960s | 131 | #2,538 (1968) | #3,620 |
| 1970s | 268 | #2,456 (1975) | #2,818 |
| 1980s | 448 | #1,726 (1984) | #2,367 |
| 1990s | 380 | #2,703 (1991) | #3,106 |
| 2000s | 441 | #3,084 (2008) | #3,417 |
| 2010s | 574 | #2,464 (2017) | #2,986 |
| 2020s | 433 | #2,062 (2023) | #2,509 |
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.
Tova in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 30,386 of them was named Tova, which outranked 82.8% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,002Wrenn55
- #3,002Ysabella55
- #3,002Zailey55
- #3,037Tova54
- #3,037Adalynne54
- #3,037Ailee54
- #3,037Amori54
- #3,069Aiko53
- #3,069Aisley53
- #3,069Alonna53
Tied with 31 names at #3,037; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.