Dovey
Dovey was given to 13 girls in 2025, #7,994 among girls’ names; 138 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dovey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dovey?
#7,994 among girls’ names, 2025
Dovey entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #7,994 in 2025.
13 babies in 2025, the peak
Dovey peaked in 2025, when 13 girls were given it, #7,994 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 12 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,994 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,580 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,894 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,883 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,484 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,280 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,098 | 4.9 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,078 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,899 | 2.7 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,494 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 5 | #5,035 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,443 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,748 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,757 | 6.5 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,977 | 6.0 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,610 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,204 | 8.1 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,314 | 8.0 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,615 | 23.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dovey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dovey has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dovey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dovey, and how old are they?
An estimated 69 Americans named Dovey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 131 people named Dovey (126 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 31 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.2 times 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).
How common is the spelling Dovey?
Dovey is a less common spelling of Dovie: SSA has recorded 138 Dovey and 9,086 Dovie since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 10,753 babies since 1880, Dovey is the third most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 187 babies (7.0%), 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.
More about Dovey and names like it
- Compare Dovey and DovieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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