Girls' name · since 1900
Dovey
Dovey has 138 recorded births since 1900 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #23,631 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #7,907 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 138
- born since 1900
- 2020s
- peak decade
138 babies have been named Dovey since 1900, making it today's #7907 girls' name.
Dovey has 138 recorded births among girls since 1900, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #7907 as of the latest data, more common than 54% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1900 to 2025.
- #23,631 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #7,907 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 138 born since 1900
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Dovey ranks #23,631 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #7,907 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 138 born since 1900, peaking in the 2020s.
- #23,631 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #7,907 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 138
- born since 1900
- 2020s
- peak decade
Dovey's 138 recorded births place it above 67.26% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Dovey compares
138 30th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Dovey's all-time total is 63% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Dovey | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 138 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 13 | 21 | 19,840 |
Dovey's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Dovey's SSA record in two at 1938 and the more recent half accounts for 55% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 45%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1913, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2025 peak of 13, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Dovey popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1900–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 126 years of records
Dovey by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (45 births, 33% of the file).
2020s was Dovey's strongest decade.
45 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 33% of all-time use.
Dovey births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1900s 7
1900s
7 births
- 1910s
1910s
25 births
- 1920s
1920s
30 births
- 1930s 5
1930s
5 births
- 1950s
1950s
20 births
- 2010s 6
2010s
6 births
- 2020s
2020s
45 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 45 births (33% of all-time use).
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Similar record span (~125 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1900–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Dovey draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.