Cove — #1211 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cove

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,050 babies named Cove between 1997 and 2024, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cove currently holds the #1211 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 167 babies received it in a single year. Cove is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 372 additional births since 2014.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cove performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 590 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Cove shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 122 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Cove in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cove in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,050 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.