Cove
Cove is given to both girls and boys: 100 girls and 171 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,933 among girls’ names and #1,192 among boys’, #1,815 among all names counting both); 1,696 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,680 Americans named Cove and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 7.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cove by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cove?
#1,192 among boys’ names, 2025
Cove rose from #2,414 in 2015 to #1,192 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.03 to 0.10 per 1,000.
271 babies in 2025, the peak
Cove peaked in 2025, when 271 babies were given it (171 boys, #1,192 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 168 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 100 | #1,933 | 171 | #1,192 |
| 2024 | 81 | #2,288 | 168 | #1,206 |
| 2023 | 94 | #2,064 | 145 | #1,316 |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,322 | 136 | #1,376 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,752 | 72 | #2,041 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,786 | 72 | #1,981 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,436 | 83 | #1,826 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,754 | 58 | #2,306 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,893 | 51 | #2,495 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,218 | 44 | #2,732 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #17,035 | 53 | #2,414 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,990 | 22 | #4,418 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 28 | #3,674 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 28 | #3,729 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 19 | #4,848 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 16 | #5,523 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 11 | #7,310 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 15 | #5,818 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 5 | #12,711 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 5 | #12,388 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 7 | #9,127 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #11,204 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #10,889 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #9,531 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Cove a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,696 Americans recorded as Cove, 28% are girls and 72% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cove: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cove, and how old are they?
1,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,696 Americans ever recorded as Cove. The median Cove alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 7.
The 2020 Census counted 549 people named Cove (75 women and girls, 474 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 531 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 120 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,570 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Cove born?
The states with the most babies named Cove are California, Florida and Texas, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 27 | #1,312 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 19 | #1,278 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 16 | #1,575 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 14 | #528 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 12 | #1,313 | 0.5× |
| Utah | 10 | #443 | 3.5× |
| Indiana | 6 | #873 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,240 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,127 | 0.3× |
| Oregon | 6 | #544 | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cove with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,858 babies since 1880, Cove is the most given (59% of them). In 2025 it was given to 271 of their 490 babies (55%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cove
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cove and names like it
- Compare Cove and KoveBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCove peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cove since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Cove.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cove alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.