Ova — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ova

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,364 babies named Ova between 1881 and 2023, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ova currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 51 babies received it in a single year. Ova is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 528 additional births since 1885.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ova performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 382 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Ova shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 174 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Arkansas and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Ova in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ova 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 1,364 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.