Cove

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Cove: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Cove: Recorded since 2014, its highest recorded position is #432, and it stood at #444 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
19times a registrar ranked it
12years from first to last
#432highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2020–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2020	#2615
2021	#2499
2022	#1849
2023	#1959
2024	#1128
2025	#1512

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 10 of the 12 years from 2014 to 2025.

In 2025: #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1512 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2014–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded2014
First recorded at #4632 among boys in England and Wales in 2014 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #1512 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Cove appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 10 years beginning in 2014, and has registered 243 births with the name.

Cove across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Cove's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#4632 (2014)	#444 (2025)	#444 (2025)	10 of 12	243 (2014–2025)	87 (2025)
England and Wales · Girls	#2615 (2020)	#1128 (2024)	#1512 (2025)	6 of 6	98 (2020–2025)	30 (2024)

Cove appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2014 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #432 in Scotland in 2024.

Cove's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	female	#1512	20	High	Verified
2025	England and Wales	male	#444	87	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#1128	30	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#757	45	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1959	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#738	45	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1849	15	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1143	24	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2125	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2404	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2266	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2445	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#432	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Cove is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Cove, between 2014 and 2025, in 10 of those 12 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	2014–2025	10	#444 in 2025
Scotland	2024	1	#432 in 2024
Republic of Ireland	2025	1	#608 in 2025

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2014 and 2025, ranked in 10 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #432, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 87 births, registered in England and Wales in 2025.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 11 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

2decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 2 decades →
9 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
2separate stretches the record falls into2 separate stretches →
2 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#444position in 2025, its most recent recorded year
11 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 11 to 20 years →
1registrars publishing it in more than one category listIn one registrar's lists →
87births registered in its largest year, 202550 to 99 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Courtney · #8, 42y
Craig · #6, 73y
Cree · #404, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Lanna · #432, 13y
Calleigh · #430, 13y
Kyna · #426, 15y
Caleigh · #439, 14y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Aryia · #432, 10y
Aaria · #434, 15y
Avaya · #434, 13y
Ivaan · #430, 11y

Cove was ranked #432 in Scotland · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aj#432
Aleksander#432
Azlan#432
Bear#432
Adrian#478
Angelo#478
Anton#478
Arjun#478

Cove and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,576 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Cove without appearing here.

Cove moved ahead of

Tracy
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2499 and #5581.
Sinead
In 2023 they stood at #1959 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1128 and #3695.
Willow
In 2018 they stood at #2445 and #2445 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2266 and #4702.
Garry
In 2017 they stood at #4632 and #4632 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #2445 and #4749.

Moved ahead of Cove

Meabh
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2499 and #1286.

Moved the opposite way to Cove

Aaron
Between 2014 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Cove went from #4632 to #444 while Aaron went from #80 to #180.
Alan
Between 2014 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Cove went from #4632 to #444 while Alan went from #187 to #539.
Alex
Between 2014 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Cove went from #4632 to #444 while Alex went from #75 to #207.
Alexander
Between 2014 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Cove went from #4632 to #444 while Alexander went from #22 to #40.

Moved the same way as Cove

Albie
Between 2014 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Cove went from #4632 to #444 and Albie from #117 to #21.
Arlo
Between 2014 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Cove went from #4632 to #444 and Arlo from #141 to #15.
Arthur
Between 2014 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Cove went from #4632 to #444 and Arthur from #41 to #5.
Beau
Between 2014 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Cove went from #4632 to #444 and Beau from #187 to #108.

What is known about Cove

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 3 official registrars, 2014–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2014 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #432 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Cove across 2 official records

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Cove across 2 official records

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