Dove is a distinctive choice, ranked #2138 in 2025. Your child is likely to be the only Dove in their class.
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UK Rank 2025
#2138
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About the Name Dove
Dove is currently at its most popular point on record, sitting at UK #2001. The name has climbed 1116 places in the last five years — a significant surge by any measure. The name has been relatively new to UK records, first appearing in 2019.
Dove is rare in the UK, so your child is very likely to be the only Dove in their class.
⭐ Famous People Named Dove
Roja Dove — Roja Dove is a British perfumer whose fragrances are sold at department stores worldwide.
Rita Dove — Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and essayist.
Edmilson Dove — Edmilson Gabriel Dove is a Mozambican professional footballer who plays for Mozambique national team.
Biographical summaries are shortened from Wikipedia and are used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; those summaries remain available under that same licence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Dove
Unlikely. With around 13 UK babies named Dove per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Dove in their class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Dove is rising: up 979 places since 2020, to #2,138 in 2025. Its best recorded position was #2,001 in 2024.
Dove is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Dove include: Roja Dove, Rita Dove and Edmilson Dove. Short summaries for each appear below.
Dove does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Doves in the wild.
13
UK babies named Dove (2025)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↑ 979 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Dove
Almost certainly the only Dove in the class
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UK Popularity (2019–2025)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Dove
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Ronald Eugene Dove is an American pop and country music singer who had a string of hit pop records in the mid to late 1960s and several country chart records in the 1970s and 1980s.
Rain Dove Victoria Dubilewski is an American model, actor, and activist, best known for their work in fashion as a gender-nonconforming model, posing alternately as male and female in photoshoots, productions, and runway shows.
"Dove sono" (Where are [those happy moments]) is an aria in Italian for lyric soprano from the third act of Mozart's 1786 opera Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro).