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 #608 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
17times a registrar ranked it
12years from first to last
#432highest recorded position
1grouping it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2020–2024

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

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 9 of the 11 years from 2014 to 2024.

In 2024: #432 among boys in Scotland, #757 among boys in England and Wales.

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

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 recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1128 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
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 9 years beginning in 2014, and has registered 156 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)	#738 (2023)	#757 (2024)	9 of 11	156 (2014–2024)	45 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#2615 (2020)	#1128 (2024)	#1128 (2024)	5 of 5	78 (2020–2024)	30 (2024)

Cove appears in

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

Names recorded by exactly 3 registrars

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
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.

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 45 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

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 →
#608position 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 →
45births registered in its largest year, 202325 to 49 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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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, 12y
Calleigh · #430, 13y
Kyna · #426, 14y
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, 9y
Aaria · #434, 14y
Avaya · #434, 12y
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.

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 2,573 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

Willow Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2445 and #2445 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2266 and #4702.
Garry Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4632 and #4632 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #2445 and #4749.
Jade Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4632 and #4632 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #2445 and #4749.
Anders Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2445 and #2259 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2266 and #3937.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't 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.

Cove

Cove at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cove across 2 official records

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Popularity data

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Also first recorded in the 2010s

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Cove across 2 official records

Cove appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Names published alongside Cove

Cove and the names beside it

Cove moved ahead of