Tove
- #6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · girls
- 1963 · 9 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 279since 1930
Tove over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Tove has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 |
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| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 |
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| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 |
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| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 |
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| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 |
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| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
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| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 |
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| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 |
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| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 |
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| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
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| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 |
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| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 |
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| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 |
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| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
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| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 |
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| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 |
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First appearance
1930
The first year at least five girls were named Tove! It came in at #4,550, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1930–1954, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Tove is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Tove in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Rising
- 1,048 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #6,546)
- 1,860 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #6,546)
- 5,289 spots since 2015 (#11,835 → #6,546)
Rise & fade · girls
33 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1930
- Peaked 1963 at #4,539 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1964, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 80,229
- Highest: 1 in 80,229 girls born in 2023 were named Tove (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,539 in 1963, was only 1 in 214,167 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2020s
- 35.1% of all girls named Tove (98) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #4,550 (1930) | #4,550 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 12 | #4,740 (1955) | #5,493 |
| 1960s | 28 | #4,539 (1963) | #5,564 |
| 1970s | 29 | #5,413 (1970) | #6,916 |
| 1980s | 27 | #9,237 (1982) | #10,058 |
| 1990s | 5 | #13,518 (1996) | #13,518 |
| 2000s | 17 | #14,502 (2005) | #15,364 |
| 2010s | 58 | #7,762 (2018) | #10,745 |
| 2020s | 98 | #5,960 (2023) | #6,950 |
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.
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