Covey
Covey is given to both girls and boys: 25 girls and 38 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,128 among girls’ names and #3,141 among boys’, #4,802 among all names counting both); 373 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Covey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Covey?
#3,141 among boys’ names, 2025
Covey entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #3,141 in 2025.
63 babies in 2025, the peak
Covey peaked in 2025, when 63 babies were given it (38 boys, #3,141 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 26 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,128 | 38 | #3,141 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,002 | 26 | #4,096 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,115 | 19 | #5,103 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,639 | 10 | #7,874 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,871 | 14 | #6,084 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,513 | 5 | #12,414 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,736 | 16 | #5,610 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 11 | #7,223 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 9 | #8,286 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 8 | #9,014 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | under 5 | 5 | #12,510 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,372 | 7 | #9,821 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 10 | #7,694 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 5 | #12,712 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 6 | #10,344 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 7 | #8,346 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 6 | #8,900 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 8 | #6,969 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #7,491 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 8 | #4,939 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 6 | #5,925 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #6,423 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,176 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 6 | #5,246 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #4,915 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 6 | #4,725 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 8 | #3,718 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 7 | #3,917 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 6 | #4,030 |
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 Covey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 373 Americans recorded as Covey, 25% are girls and 75% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Covey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Covey, and how old are they?
An estimated 364 Americans named Covey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 2 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 236 people named Covey (47 women and girls, 189 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 178 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,617 babies since 1880, Covey is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 63 of their 416 babies (15%), again the third 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 Covey
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 Covey and names like it
- Compare Covey and CoveBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCovey peaked in 2025.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Covey since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Covey.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Covey alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.