Dove is a distinctive choice, ranked #2001 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Dove in their class.
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UK Rank 2024
#2001
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 distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school — standing out on every register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Dove
Unlikely. With around 14 UK babies named Dove per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Dove in her class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Dove is currently rising in popularity in the UK, up 1116 places over the last five years to #2001 in 2024. If this trend continues, it will become more common in classrooms over the next decade.
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 — 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..
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.
14
UK babies named Dove (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↑ 1116 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
Likely around 1 other Dove in the class
UK Popularity (2019–2024)
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
Roja Dove is a British perfumer whose fragrances are sold at department stores worldwide. Born and raised in Sussex, South East England, his career in perfumery began in 1981 when he joined the French perfume house Guerlain, working there for 20 years before leaving to set up his own companies RDPR and then Roja Parfums.
Edmilson Gabriel Dove is a Mozambican professional footballer who plays for Mozambique national team. He primarily plays as a defender, but has also played as a midfielder.
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 was voted as SheWired's Most Eligible Bachelorette in 2014 and named one of Elle Magazine's 12 Women Who Are Redefining Beauty in 2015.
"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). Part of the music to the aria was "recycled" from the earlier "Agnus dei" from Mozart's Coronation Mass.