Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Cove” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cove” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Cove” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Cove” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Cove” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Cove” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Cove” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cove” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1997 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 -100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 -100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 -100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 -100%
2008 15 0.000003816 15 -100%
2009 11 0.000002879 11 -100%
2010 16 0.000004329 16 -100%
2011 19 0.000005194 19 -100%
2012 28 0.000007656 28 -100%
2013 28 0.00000768 28 -100%
2014 28 0.000007555 6 22 -57%
2015 58 0.000015672 5 53 -83%
2016 51 0.000013901 7 44 -73%
2017 59 0.000016498 8 51 -73%
2018 67 0.000019056 9 58 -73%
2019 98 0.000028234 15 83 -69%
2020 99 0.000029636 27 72 -45%
2021 112 0.000033058 40 72 -29%
2022 215 0.000063551 80 135 -26%
2023 238 0.000071877 94 144 -21%
2024 248 0.000074508 81 167 -35%

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