Ovie — #8317 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ovie

The Social Security Administration has registered 480 babies named Ovie between 1896 and 2024, spanning 129 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ovie currently holds the #8317 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Ovie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 365 additional births since 1884.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ovie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 121 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Ovie shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 27 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Ovie in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ovie 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 480 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.